chicken fried rice.

i've been wanting to make chinese food at home for as long as i can remember. i kept putting it off and putting it off, thinking without a wok i wouldn't really be making chinese food, specifically fried rice. but woks are huge, and our kitchen, well you could say it isn't. it's more small, even teeny if you want to be honest. and i have a semisecret hoarding habit. i save boxes. the hall closet is packed full of them so a wok might really send nelzo over the edge. truth be told, i'm sure he'd rather i unloaded the superfluous boxes and get a wok, but i need my boxes. you never know if you have a package to mail or you need a container to hold some things, sheesh. i just need my boxes ok?

anyway, since wok ownership seems far off, i decided my largish frying pan would have to suffice as an alternative frying mechanism. and while i could guess the ingredients in fried rice, the method seemed somewhat of a mystery. do you scramble the eggs separately and add them to the rice? does the chicken get marinated? do i need a specific kind of rice? is it ok to cook with soy sauce and then douse with additional soy sauce? obviously not the soy sauce you cooked with. ahhh, so many questions on methodology!

the recipes i consulted, didn't marinate the chicken, but i thought marinating would add some extra flavor.

marinating ingredients:

 for two chicken breasts: 

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1 tablespoon plum sauce

1 tablespoon fish sauce

2 teaspoons sesame oil

2 tablespoons chicken stock

1 teaspoon minced garlic

1 teaspoon minced ginger

zee breasts marinating....

marinate at least 30 minutes, but i think i was closer to 2 hours....

cook the breasts in a frying pan about 6-8 minutes per side, depending on thickness.

remove from pan and chop up.

and then gather your other ingredients:

cook rice and peas according to directions. set aside.

heat pan with some oil and add eggs. this part is scary. as the eggs begin to cook, maybe 2 minutes, start to whisk them around a bit.

then add this mixture:

2 tablespoons soy sauce

1/2 teaspoon sugar

1/2 cup chicken stock

and add it to the eggs. whisk with venom, mixture should resemble this:

looks kind of gross right? i agree. but wait, this will work out.

add cooked rice, peas and chicken.

stir to combine.

now this looks yummy.