12 Chinese Rice Dishes You Can Make at Home
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1. Yangzhou Fried Rice
Chinese Name: 扬州炒饭 yáng zhōu chǎo fàn Flavor: salty Main Ingredients: steamed rice, eggs, carrots... Cooking Methods: fry
How to cook Yangzhou Fried Rice? Fry shrimp meat to make it turn into white. Next, fry corns, carrot dices, cucumber dices, sausage dices together with salt, and remove from the pot. Fry eggs and cooked rice respectively. After that, add all materials to stir-fry with a few drops of sesame oil. And the Yangzhou Fried Rice is well done. Read more: Recipe - How to Make Yangzhou Fried Rice
2. Egg Fried Rice
Chinese Name: 蛋炒饭 dàn chǎo fàn Flavor: salty and aromatic Main Ingredients: eggs, steamed rice, sausage... Cooking Methods: stir-fry
Egg Fried Rice is one of popular Chinese rice dishes and simplified Yangzhou fried rice. Both are popular fried rice recipes to cook the leftover rice. First crack eggs into a bowl and stir it with chopsticks. Pour cooked rice in the egg liquid, and add salt, sesame oil, mashed ginger and chopped shallots. Mix them well to make every rice grain be covered with egg liquid. Then, stir-fry them with salt. Add side vegetables to stir-fry until the dish is well done. Don’t whip too much eggs. The side vegetables depend on your own taste, such as sausage, mushrooms, carrots, etc; but they need to be cut into small dices. Read more: Recipe - How to Make Egg Fried Rice
3. Cantonese Clay Pot Rice
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| Cantonese Clay Pot Rice |
Chinese Name: 广东煲仔饭 guǎng dōng bāo zǎi fàn Flavor: salty, aromatic Main Ingredients: rice, cured meat, green vegetables... Cooking Methods: stew
This Chinese rice dish is popular in Cantonese speaking areas including Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong. The authentic Cantonese Clay Pot Rice is cooked with local long grain rice. Brush oil on the bottom of the clay pot, and add clear rice together with water to stew it. When the water reduces and holes made by steam appear, add sliced cured meat, chicken or beef quickly. After that, add shredded ginger, whipped egg and green vegetables. Turn down the heat, and continue to stew for 5 minutes or so. At last, turn off the heat, let it stew for another 15 minutes with remaining heating. Then, pour seasoned sauce on the rice dish. Three are three tastes in such a pot of rice: on the top an aroma of meat and vegetables; on the bottom, crispy with slight char; and in the middle strong rice aroma and chewy.
4. Rice in Omelet
Chinese Name: 蛋包饭 dàn bāo fàn Flavor: sour and sweet Main Ingredients: steamed rice, egg, sausages... Cooking Methods: fry
The following is a simple Chinese rice recipe of Rice in Omelet, which origins from Japan. Fry small sausage dices, green soya beans and corns for a minute at first. Next, add cooked rice and stir-fry them well with salt, white pepper powder and some ketchup. Then, remove them out from the pot. Pan-fry an egg to make it become a round egg roll. After that, put the egg roll in a plate, put fried rice in the middle of the egg roll, fold the egg roll in half and stick the mouth of egg roll with ketchup. Extrude some ketchup with zigzag on the top, then you can enjoy it.
5. Hainanese Chicken Rice
Chinese Name: 海南鸡饭 hǎi nán jī fàn Flavor: salty, chicken flavor Main Ingredients: chicken, rice, green vegetables... Cooking Methods: boil, steam, fry
Hainanese Chicken Rice is a famous Chinese rice set from Hainan Province, which consist of a plate of White Cut Chicken, a bowl of chicken soup, a bowl of rice, some dipping sauce and fried green vegetables. Boil a whole chicken without haslet with shallot slices, ginger slices, cooking wine and salt over low fire to be well done, the White Cut Chicken is prepared. Then, stir-fry soaked rice with chicken oil, and steam the fried rice with chicken soup. Next, fry green vegetables to be tender with a little salt. After that, make the dipping sauce with mashed onion, ginger, chili and garlics, salt, a little lemon juice and some chicken soup. The dipping sauce goes with chicken. At last, cut the White Cut Chicken into small pieces and serve on a plate, together with rice, fried green vegetables and dipping sauce.
6. Taiwanese Braised Pork over Rice (Lu Rou Fan)
Chinese Name: 台湾卤肉饭 tái wān lǔ ròu fàn Flavor: salty Main Ingredients: pork, rice, eggs, onions... Cooking Methods: stew or boil
Taiwanese Braised Pork over Rice is popular among various Chinese rice dishes. The first step, quick-boil pork in boiling water with crunched ginger. When the boiled pork cool down, mince it. Next, fry chopped onions and garlics to be golden and add pork mince to fry. As the food become dry, add cooking wine to continue frying. When the pork oil comes out, add soy sauce, rock candy, five-spice powder, sesame paste and vinegar to stir-fry evenly. After that, add water over the food and boil it. When it boils, remove to a stewpot and stew it with peeled eggs for an hour. The Taiwanese Braised Pork is ready. At last, place boiled green vegetables, half egg, and some stewed pork over the rice, and then the Taiwanese Braised Pork over Rice is prepared.
7. Xinjiang Hand Grasping Rice
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| Xinjiang Hand Grasping Rice |
Chinese Name: 新疆手抓饭 xīn jiāng shǒu zhuā fàn Flavor: salty Main Ingredients: lamb chop, carrots, onions, rice Cooking Methods: boil, stew
Xinjiang Hand Grasping Rice is a special Chinese rice food, and it is a must of Uygur nationality to celebrate festivals and treat guests. It was eaten with hands originally, hence the name. Nowadays, you can eat this Chinese rice dish with chopsticks or a spoon. The first step of this Chinese rice recipe is to boil lamb loafs with sliced ginger. When it boils, scoop out the foams, add soy sauce, salt, cumin powder, peppers and hawthorn slices to boil for another 15-20 minutes. Then, fry shredded onion and carrot shreds. Put the boiled lamb chop loafs on the bottom of an electronic cooker, add fried onions and carrots on the mutton, place the soaked rice on the top, and pour some soup used to boil lamb over all the food materials. After that, turn on the electronic cooker to stew it. When it is well done, mix them and you can enjoy the dish.
8. Cheese Baked Rice
Chinese Name: 芝士焗饭 zhī shì jú fàn Flavor: cheese flavor Main Ingredients: cheese, rice, ketchup, mayonnaise... Cooking Methods: fry, bake
Firstly, quick-boil green soya beans and small carrot dices, stir-fry whipped eggs fast. Then fry ham dices, cucumber dices, boiled carrot dices and green soya beans with chopped shallots, onion dices and chili dices. Next, add cooked rice, fried eggs as well as salt and black pepper powder to stir-fry well. Dish up and sprinkle ketchup and mayonnaise. Afterwards, add a layer of cheese and bake it in an oven of 200℃(390℉) for about 5 minutes until the surface become golden.
9. Braised Rice with Spareribs
Chinese Name: 排骨焖饭 pái gǔ mèn fàn Flavor: salty Main Ingredients: pork steak, rice, young garlic shoot... Cooking Methods: braise, fry and steam
This Chinese rice recipe is not difficult as you may think. Here is a home-cooked recipe for you. Soak pork steak loafs to make the blood remove. Soak clear rice for half an hour. Then, fry rock candy with a little water to be coffee color. Add soaked pork steak loafs to stir-fry, to make the melt candy stick on steak evenly. Next, put the steak aside of the pot, and fry star anises and ginger slices. Mix them to go on frying. Afterwards, pour soaked rice in the pot and mix them well together with some salt. Remove all these into a small basin, and steam it for 20 minutes. At last, sprinkle red chili dices and young garlic shoot dices, mix them well, and Braised Rice with Spareribs is ready.
10. Pineapple Fried Rice
Chinese Name: 菠萝饭 bō luó fàn Flavor: sweet and aromatic Main Ingredients: rice, fresh pineapple, eggs, cooked cashew kernels... Cooking Methods: fry
Pineapple Fried Rice is a specialty in Yunnan and Hainan areas. At first, cut fresh pineapples into halves, and scoop out the pulp. Reserve the pineapple peels, which are in the shape of a bowl. Then, cut the pulp into small dices. Next, stir-fry eggs into very small pieces. Quick-boil shrimp meat. After that, heat some oil and add onion dices, green and red chili dices, and cooked rice successively to fry them well. Add fried eggs, soaked pineapple dices, raisins and boiled shrimp meat, and season them with salt, and oyster sauce. Finally, move fried rice into the pineapple bowls, sprinkle some cooked cashew kernels, and you can taste the aromatic Pineapple Fried Rice.
11. Coconut Rice
Chinese Name: 椰子饭 yē zi fàn Flavor: sweet, slightly aromatic, coconut flavor Main Ingredients: coconut, glutinous rice, white sugar Cooking Methods: boil or steam
Coconut Rice is a special Chinese rice food in Hainan cuisine. It is also called “Coconut Boat” as it is served with small boat like coconut shells. To cook the dish, soak clear glutinous rice for several hours, and drain off the water firstly. Then, cut a small hole on the top of a fresh coconut, pour out the coconut juice, fill in soaked glutinous rice, white sugar, some coconut juice, some fresh milk into the coconut. Next, seal the coconut tightly with the cover cut off previously. Boil it with slow fire for three to four hours or steam it in a pressure cooker for 100 minutes. When it cools down naturally, cut it into pieces shaped like small boats. The rice has a strong fragrance of coconut rice.
12. Rice in Bamboo Tube
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| Rice in Bamboo Tube |
Chinese Name: 竹筒饭 zhú tǒng fàn Flavor: slightly aromatic, bamboo flavor Main Ingredients: fragrant glutinous rice, water, bamboo tubes Cooking Methods: roast
Rice in Bamboo Tube is a kind of unique rice food of ethnic minorities in Yunnan Province, in particular of Dai Nationality. Prepare some bamboo tubes in advance. The bamboo tube should be taken from new bamboo, and the length should be within 25 cm (10 in) with the diameter of about 6 cm (2.3 in). Cut a hole in an end of bamboo tube and fill fragrant glutinous rice and water in. You can also add minced meat, sausages, pickled vegetables and black beans. Don’t overfill it. The fragrant rice should be soaked for 12 hours in advance. Then seal it well and roast it on the fire for more than 20 minutes. Rotate it often while roasting to ensure that it would not catch fire. When the surface of bamboo tube is slightly brunt, the rice is well done. If it isn’t convenient to roast it at home, you can steam it for half an hour. Split the bamboo tube in half lightly and you enjoy the rice with bamboo fragrance.