Recipe: Tasty Yellow Chinese Fried Rice

Yellow Chinese Fried Rice. Traditionally Chinese fried rice is typically brown unless it's a curried fried rice or house special fried rice. But it's the curry powder which in turn contains TURMERIC. It's not saffron, it's plain old turmeric that gives a yellow color with no extra flavor really.

Traditionally Chinese fried rice is typically brown unless it's a curried fried rice or house special fried rice. But it's the curry powder which in turn contains TURMERIC. It's not saffron, it's plain old turmeric that gives a yellow color with no extra flavor really. You can cook Yellow Chinese Fried Rice using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Yellow Chinese Fried Rice

1. It's 2 cup of long grain rice.
2. You need 1 tbsp of sugar.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
4. You need 1 1/2 tsp of chicken powder.
5. Prepare 1/4 tsp of white pepper.
6. It's 2 tbsp of vegetable oil.
7. Prepare 1/4 tsp of yellow food coloring.
8. It's 2 1/2 cup of water.
9. It's 1/4 of chopped onion.
10. You need 1 of each green onion sprig.
11. You need 1 of meat of choice (seafood, pork, chicken).

This Chinese fried rice has the flavor those other recipes are missing. I want to dedicate this dish to Bergy, whose recipe "AM & B's Indonesian Mehoon" has inspired this dish. Make sure you season your rice with salt before it cooks. Add some butter to the cooking.

Yellow Chinese Fried Rice step by step

1. First wash your rice thoroughly.
2. Then cook rice normally add all the ingredients except for the onion, green onion, and meat.
3. After the rice is done cooking allow it to cool to room temperature.
4. In a wok or large skillet medium high heat add 2 tablespoons of oil and cook onions for about a 1-2 minutes.
5. Next add in meat of choice and continue to move food around so it won't stick to pan.
6. Next add in yellow rice and continue to mix and move around.
7. Add 2 tablespoons of water and green onions. Mix around for another 1-2 minutes.

I ate fried rice and it was yellow in color. So, do they put yellow food coloring in the water when cooking the rice? My local Chinese takeout restaurant has yellow rice and I think somewhere on Chow before someone mentioned it was turmeric. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, until just starting to turn golden. Chinese fried rice is the quintessential comfort food.