Fried rice you say! Very easy. There is No one standard ingredients apart from rice, egg and salt.
Cooked rice – however you wish (British style, Asian or rice cooker whatever)
Leave it overnight or leave to cool down for few hours.
Ingredients (measurement entirely up to you): Cooked rice (as prepared above), shallots, garlics (optional), spring onions (optional), eggs and salt.
Heat oil – then shallow fried shallots, garlics then pour in the rice and cook until almost dry then add eggs and keep stirring until all rice are coated. Cook until rice is “non-sticky”, add salt and finally garnish with spring onions. (note that some people prefer to cook the egg differently (scramble egg) and then add it to the rice later on – no fix style so long as it taste good). That’s it really.
For added flavour if this is your thing, you can add bacon or prawn or whatever cooked meat you have left over.
If you wish to add soy sauce then add the light soy sauce (not the dark one coz it will make your fried rice dark in colour but no harm if you like the taste). You can also add MSG if that is your thing.
Also cook in a wok rather than a flat frying pan coz the rice will fall out all over the stove and you will have to clean them later. But if flat frying pan is all you have then use it.
Oh yes … Don’t use Olive oil.