Garlic Fried Rice - Baek Jong Won
A super quick and easy garlic fried rice to elevate any simple meal
Servings: 2 servings
Equipment
- 1 Frying Pan
Ingredients
- 8 cloves (35 g) garlic, sliced thinly or minced
- 3 Tbsp cooking oil more as needed
- 1.5 Tbsp soy sauce
- 2 servings of rice about 3 cups or 400 g
- Pinch salt
- 1 Tbsp (14 g) butter
Instructions
- Heat a frying pan on medium heat with 3 Tbsp of cooking oil. Add in the garlic (can add before the oil is warmed).
- Continue to stirfry the garlic until it’s lightly browned. If there's not enough oil to spread across all the garlic, add 1-2 Tbsp of additional oil. The oil will become fragrant from the garlic. **Don’t overbrown the garlic, it will become slightly bitter.
- Lower the heat to medium-low. Add the soy sauce into the garlic and oil mix. Stir fry for 30 seconds.
- Turn off the heat. Add a pinch of salt into the garlic mix.
- Add the rice into the frying pan and break up the rice and mix well the garlic. (Heat will continue to be off so the rice can be well mixed without burning the garlic too much).
- Turn the heat back on to medium, and add the butter into the middle of the rice. Continue to toss the rice until the butter is mixed and melted into the rice. Serve!
Notes
*Tip from Baek Jong Won: If you don’t have garlic cloves at home, and only have premade or jarred minced garlic, make sure to squeeze the excess liquid out of the garlic. These garlics usually have a lot more moisture/liquid and will splatter when added to oil. Garlic cloves are preferred but pre-minced garlic can be used.