Fried rice tastes lovely, and it smells heavenly while being cooked which whets your appetite, makes your mouth water, and dials up your craving a hundredfold, barely unable to wait for it to finish cooking and be served a whole plate’s worth of the perfectly golden rice with scrambled eggs, peas, scallions, and some carrots as toppings. Adding one other ingredient onto the mix, shrimp, just makes it even more delicious. I’ve had my fair share of shrimp fried rice, and it’s enough to make my day. And that’s what Daniel Neman had thought one night, when he had suddenly had the urge to make some shrimp fried rice.
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Now, as an amateur cook, I rarely deviate from recipes because I haven’t had much experience cooking a variety of dishes yet, so it’s much better to simply follow the instructions so as not to cause too much of a disaster. In Daniel’s case, he had wanted to make double the portion allotted in the recipe, to maximize the ingredients. After buying the ingredients on the list, and adding some not on the list, he went back and started making the shrimp fried rice.
Following the recipe of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, he cooked the jasmine rice which came out dry on the top but stick at the bottom, which doesn’t make great for fried rice. So, he chucked out the rice and used basmati instead. After that, he proceeded to fry it, but having mixed up the portions, he put more oil than the amount needed for the amount of rice in the wok, so it came out very oily, and that went into the bin as well.
He fried the remaining rice well, and added the toppings and the shrimp, except he forgot to estimate the proportion of shrimp to put in, and ended up putting more than what would be recommended, which wasn’t too big of a problem. It only took longer to fry the rice than it should have. Eventually, everything came together and he was able to put a decent shrimp fried rice. However, if you’d like to make an easy shrimp fried rice, best to follow the recipe which he also outlined here on The Columbian.
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