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Fried rice with eggs and vegetables

When I cook roasted chicken with rice, some rice always remains. It happened several times I had to dispose quite a lot of rice. Nobody wanted to eat it without juice from meat. So I thought about, how I could use the rice to don’t have to dispose it. On the Internet I found lots of photos of fried rice. It was good idea how to use it. Here you have recipe, which I prepared from rest of rice. I like taste of this dish very much. You can serve it as side dish to roasted chicken too.

Ingredients for 2 servings:

• medium carrot (1 pc)
  • peel and cut into strips (length approx. 5 cm = 2 in.)
• medium red onion (1 pc)
  • peel, cut into halves
  • each half cut into strips
• small tomatoes (2 pcs)
  • each tomato cut into halves, cut out a stem
  • each half cut into wedges, remove the pulp into a bowl
  • cut wedges into big cubes
• oil (2 tbsp.)
• salt and ground pepper (to taste)
  • to season the vegetables
• medium yellow onion (1 pc)
  • peel, cut into cubes (size approx. 1 cm = 0,4 in.)
• garlic (2 cloves)
  • peel, chop into coarse pieces
• oil (3 tbsp.)
• whole egg (3 pcs)
  • crack them into small bowl
  • break yolks in bowl with a fork
• boiled and cooled rice (200 g = 7 oz.)
• salt and ground pepper (to taste)
  • to season the eggs and rice
• unsalted butter (2 tbsp.)
• fresh parsley (1 handful)
  • chop into coarse pieces

Preparation:

• in the pan heat oil (2 tbsp.) and sauté carrot
• when carrot begins to be softer, add red onion
• cook until both are golden brown
• add tomatoes (the tomato pulp not yet)
• sauté 3 to 5 minutes
• salt and pepper
• move all vegetables aside from pan to a plate

• in the same pan heat oil (3 tbsp.) and sauté yellow onion and garlic
• when both become golden, add eggs
• stir everything well and wait until eggs will be sautéed
• add boiled rice
• salt and pepper
• add unsalted butter (2 tbsp.)
• when everything is nice sautéed, move vegetables from plate to pan and add tomato pulp (Tips ↓1)
• at last stir chopped fresh parsley into the dish
• according to taste add salt and pepper

Tips:

1. If dish looks and tastes dry, add more butter.