How to Make a Shanghai Fried Rice

Last Updated: May 6, 2021

This is the recipe for Shanghai fried rice, something more filling and varied than the fried rice you may have encountered in Chinese takeout. This article will introduce you to Chinese ingredients to help you familiarize with them a bit more.

Ingredients

1 kilogram (6 cups) cooked rice or less
250 grams northern Chinese sausage
200 grams (1 1/3 cups) green peas (freshest green peas only)
100 grams (1 1/3 cups) lettuce
150 grams (5.3 ounces) shrimp or more
Soy sauce
White pepper (optional)
5 pieces of eggs
100 grams (1 cup) spring onions
Garlic
Onion
Monosodium glutamate (MSG) (optional)
Salt

Steps

1
Fluff and spread the cooked rice on a baking tray. Let it cool. Cool completely for best results.
- This is so the rice dries enough to make a proper, non-mushy fried rice.
2
Chop the garlic finely.

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3
Chop the spring onion.
4
Cut the Chinese sausages into thin discs.
5
Fry the scrambled eggs and cut into strips.
6
Slice the lettuce into strips
7
Using a Chinese wok, heat oil.
8
Add garlic, onion and shrimps for the sauté.
9
Add the strips of scrambled egg and stir well.
10
Then add the green peas, lettuce, salt and white pepper or MSG.
11
Add soy sauce and spring onions, stir well to evenly distribute the ingredients.

Community Q&A

Question

What if I add potatoes or turnip in the recipe?

Community Answer

It would infuse the flavor and you can substitute for the carrot.

Warnings

Be aware that some people are allergic or sensitive to MSG. If you are one of those people, or suspect you are, replace it with other seasonings.

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