Selma's Guilty-Calories-Regret-Later Left Over Lamb Meat Fried Rice Recipe

Mom's homemade Fried Rice is my morning alarm. Born and raised as an Indonesian, I was a school little who preferred the smell of my mom's Margarine-Fried Rice to a bowl of cereal or toast. The morning smell I love is my home and childhood memory.

When I still had the willing to bring my own lunch to school, one of the best things about school was opening the lunch box of my mother’s margarine-Fried Rice with sausage, beans, and scrambled eggs. A school little girl with no worries of calories intake, I would always craved my mother’s Fried Rice at midnight and as snacks. “I’m hungry” the words used to come out of me every time. Then within fifteen minutes, spices, garlic, margarine or soy sauce were calling on me to chase the smell.  Being at 20s I must endure the midnight Fried Rice craving, consider the probability of over weight and cholesterol. Overall, fried rice is the home of my happiness and love.

I lived aboard in the United States before, but I have never forgotten the taste of being Indonesian. The language, culture, and belief, have been within me for 22 years. Consider the love I have for any Asian foods and cuisines, nothing would out won the smell of my mom’s homemade Fried Rice in the morning. Mom’s Margarine-Fried Rice raised me.

Continue reading, to learn about my own simple homemade Fried Rice recipe!!

Little History of Fried Rice

Fried Rice is known as one of Asia’s cuisines with many of its own recipes from each country. Consider its varieties and how it had spread across the continents for new recipe to be invented, where fried rice originated never came across my mind till I created my own homemade. Few times I typed and clicked on google, Mr. Google only given me the answer that fried rice is the most popular component in the East, Southeast and South Asian. However, I finally discovered from http://friedrice-love.blogspot.com/2010/08/history-of-fried-rice.html, in China, fried rice is not just the popular component in fact it’s important for the Chinese since 4000 BC. Until it was spread and developed by nomads Sino (During conflict between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan, which led to war between the twos.)

The Birth of Selma's Homemade Fried Rice Recipe

Last night big dinner with my family was no celebration, but my grandmother prepared so many Indonesian foods. The dishes were able to feed more than ten tummies when there were only five of us. My grandmother’s signature dishes of Tahu Isi (Filled tofu with vegetable and fried with flour), Ayam Bumbu Kuning (Chicken seasoned with ginger and galangal), Sayur Sop (Soup seasoned with chicken bone being boiled and filled with kinds of vegetable), Sambel Terasi (Spicy sauce made of mixed and smoothed chilies and shrimp paste), Bakwan (Fried dough mixed with kinds of vegetable), Mendoan (Fried thin tempeh covered in seasoned flour), and Ikan Bakar Kecap (Grilled fish seasoned with soy sauce and chillies) are served. Though she had cooked all kinds of food, she decided still yet enough and had a take out Sate Kambing (Lamb meat cut to pieces in stick and seasoned with soy sauce, garlic and chilies. Then grilled on top of charcoal till cooked.)

There were still left over though dinner went with everyone eaten more than they can consume. Everyone was sleepy being too full that they went to the couch to enjoy reality show on TV. I was obligated to clean after the kitchen and dishes since it was my turn. Why is that I was always left with the cleaning after big dinner or celebration? Well, consider how much I have eaten I can use some sweeping and wiping to burn of those calories right? Hahaha. The next morning when everyone still sleeping at 7 AM due to overload calories, I decided to make Fried Rice for breakfast. I had put the left over in the fridge, including the rice. The ingredients I used, as the topping was the left over lamb meat.

Selma’s Guilty-Calories-Regret-Later Left Over Lamb Meat Fried Rice Recipe? 

(What a name huh? haha)

Selma's Guilty-Calories-Regret-Later Left Over Lamb Fried Rice

Ingredients:
Chili

Garlic

A day-old rice

Leek
Salt
Pepper

Soy sauce

Left over Sate Kambing (Can be placed with any meat or chicken)

Step: 

1. Low heat three tablespoon of oil on the frying pan.
2. Slice the leek into small pieces and put aside.
3. Smoothen the garlic and hot chili (Base on the amount of spices desire) with a blender for just 5 seconds.
4. Change the stove to medium heat.
5. Cook the Sate Kambing (Meat, chicken or any preferable) with the heated oil for 10 seconds. Then add the smoothen garlic and hot chili.
6. Stir and cook for 10 seconds.
7. Add the day-old rice then stir until half mixed. Then add soy sauce base on the desire amount.
8. Give couple pinch of salt and pepper.
9. Add the leek that had been sliced.
10. Stir until all the ingredients are mixed.

"Simple recipe, yet deliciously tempting."

Fried Rice is known as the simplest and easiest recipe through Asia, now had spread through continents. The use of left over made it much more easy in finding ingredients to have a home cooked meal. With the use of left over, I believe the existence of Fried Rice is considered to be friendly environment. Throwing less uneaten food on this land of earth. Though there are no left over, Fried Rice still taste no less delicious with salt, eggs, and soy sauce. However the main seasonings for Fried Rice are salt, garlic, pepper and soy sauce, which every house stocked in their kitchen right?

How You'd Fried Your Rice?

Fried Rice popularity invented many kinds varieties in every country. The Chinese have the most popular Fried Rice through USA and UK, Yangzhou chaofan is served as fast food and street food through out the world. With so many Chinese Restaurant all over the world, Yangzhou cahofan has always been the preferred main menu. Japan’s Fried Rice mostly seen is called Omurice, Fried Rice wrapped inside an omelette.  The rice is mixed with vegetable, and meat or chicken. To add more flavors usually tomato sauce or Ketchup is put on top. If you watch movies especially Japanese movie, young people are seen eating this recipe with a lot of ketchup on top all the time for their lunch box at school. Bokkeum-bap, Korean Fried Rice cooked with any kinds of ingredients with oil. For Koreans, Bokkeum-bap is an end-of-meal using what are left from the main dish. When the top of stove used after the main meal is finish; Koreans added rice and seaweed flakes then stir until all what’s left on the stove are combined and browned. Finally as for Indonesian, Nasi Goreng is fried with sweet soy sauce, and eggs. Nasi Goreng is usually completed with chicken or meat. Indonesian never missed out the Prawn Cracker in enjoying the Fried Rice. Though Nasi Goreng is made with simple ingredients, most Indonesians prefer spicy by adding large amount of chilies. Every country not only has one recipe, but there are varieties consider their desire.

What’s your favorite Fried Rice? There are still kinds of Fried Rice from many places, despite China, Japan, Korea and Indonesia as I have mentioned. Overall, my favorite is still my mother’s lunch box Fried Rice. When I opened my lunch box at midday, the smell of margarine triggered the feeling of joy. The beauty of itself with sunny side up egg on top, the yellowish and orange-ish color of the rice mixed with margarine, the green from beans and the red from sausage. The joy of my childhood, mother’s homemade breakfast and lunch box of Margarine-Fried Rice. 

 

Mom's homemade Margarine-Fried Rice