Bacon Fried Rice

This is a variation of Chinese fried rice I learned from my friend Jo, who would prepare this for her 4 children’s lunches.

The bacon is easily sliced and cooks quickly, the residual fat is used to flavor the rice, and it has endless substitutions. No corn? Omit completely or add celery. No green onions? Use yellow onions. No bacon? Use deli meat and add oil (cooking oil or butter) to add fat to fry the rice. Use spam. No eggs? Well, I love eggs in my fried rice so that one is a dealbreaker for me, but I’ve done it before and the kids still ate it.

I use low sodium soy sauce so just add enough to coat the rice.

I vary my rice between Jasmine and regular short grain rice. You don’t want the rice to be too wet, because no one likes a soggy fried rice.

Freezes great in ziploc bags for future emergency meals! Just reheat in the microwave.