We were watching Heny Sison‘s cooking show yesterday and one of the featured recipes was Yang Chow fried rice. I suddenly remembered how long it had been since we last had Chinese-style fried rice in the house. Well, I didn’t have enough ingredients for making Yang Chow but I had more than enough to cook fried rice. Something like Yang Chow but with different meat and vegetable ingredients.
Since I only had four cups of cold cooked rice and more than twice as much cold meat and vegetables combined, when the fried rice was cooked, the kids laughingly asked where the rice was. 
Yeah, well, it was more like stir fried beef, mushrooms and vegetables with a little cooked rice stirred in. That was all we had for lunch yesterday. Why cook a separate meat or vegetable dish when the fried rice had enough of both?
Ingredients :
4 c. of cold cooked rice, mashed to separate the grains
4 c. of cooked beef or pork asado, cut into 1″x1″ cubes
1 c. of sliced mushroom caps (black chinese, abalone or button)
2 bell peppers
1 large carrot
3/4 c. of sweet peas
a bunch of sibuyas na mura (onion leaves)
1 tbsp. of finely minced garlic
1 large white onion, chopped
4 eggs, beaten
1/4 c. of light soy sauce
3 tbsps. of oyster sauce
1/2 tsp. of ground pepper
1 tsp. of sesame seed oil
a few drops of yellow egg food coloring
1/8 c. of vegetable oil
Cooking procedure :
Pour the yellow egg food coloring on the mashed rice. Toss to blend.
Core, deseed and roughly chop the bell peppers.
Peel and roughly chop the carrot.
Thoroughly wash, trim the ends and cut the onion leaves into half inch lengths.
Heat a tablespoonful of cooking oil in a wok or large frying pan. Pour in half of the beaten eggs and cook until set. Lift with a spatula and transfer to a chopping board. Roll up and cut into thin strips. Set aside.
Pour in the rest of the cooking oil and heat until it starts to smoke. Saute the chopped onion and minced garlic until fragrant. Add the chopped bell peppers, sliced mushroom caps and chopped carrot. Cook over high heat for about a minute. Add the pork or beef asado cubes and cook, stirring until the meat is heated through. Pour in the soy sauce and oyster sauce. Sprinkle with pepper. Stir well. Pour in the rest of the beaten eggs and cook, stirring, for about 30 seconds. Add the onion leaves and sweet peas. Toss a few times. Add the colored rice and toss to distribute the meat, vegetables and seasonings evenly. Cook for a few minutes, tossing often. Turn off the heat. Pour in the sesame seed oil and add the sliced omelette. Toss a few times. Serve at once.
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