I like recipes that are quick and easy.
It’s one of the reasons why I love fried rice.
I can pretty much guarantee that I always have the main ingredients for shrimp fried rice already in my refrigerator and cupboard.
- Rice
- Onion
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Carrots
- Bell Pepper
- Scallions
- Eggs
- Shrimp (frozen)
- Tamari or Shoyu
And, those ingredients change all the time, depending on what I have on hand.
If I have frozen peas, I’ll throw those in.
If I have broccoli, that goes in as well.
Celery often makes it to the frying pan, and mushrooms, too.
There are so many variations. Use what you have.
Try my simple shrimp fried rice and let me know if you like it as much as I do.
- 1 cup jasmine rice
- 2 cups chicken stock (or water)
- 1 tbsp. peanut oil (olive oil or other oil)
- 1 large onion, peeled and diced
- 3 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
- 2 tbsp. ginger, peeled and minced
- 2 carrots, diced small
- 2 tbsp. Tamari or Shoyu
- 1 tbsp. mirin rice wine (optional)
- 1 cup medium sized shrimp (frozen)
- 1 tsp. Sea salt
- 2 pastured eggs, scrambled
- 3 scallions, minced
- In a pot, bring rice, stock and ½ tsp. salt to a boil.
- Cover, reduce heat to simmer and cook 15 minutes.
- In a large frying pan heat the oil.
- Add onion, garlic, ginger and carrots, plus the remaining ½ tsp. of salt.
- Cover and cook 5-7 minutes, tossing occasionally.
- Add Tamari, mirin and shrimp into the frying pan with the veggies, and cook 3-4 minutes.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the cooked rice with the cooked veggies and shrimp.
- Quickly rinse the frying pan and scramble the eggs in a little fat (peanut oil, butter, ghee).
- Add scrambled egg into the rice, shrimp and veggie mixture and toss.
- Top with scallions.
Andrea Beaman is an internationally renowned Holistic Health Coach, Natural Foods Chef, Speaker, Herbalist and best-selling author. Named one of the top 100 Most Influential Health and Fitness Experts, she is also a recipient of the Natural Gourmet Institute’s Award for Excellence in Health-Supportive Education and a Health Leadership award from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Since 1999, Andrea has been teaching people how to harness the body’s own preventative and healing powers using food, herbal remedies and alternative medicine.
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