Meal Prep: Chicken Fried Rice

Name: Meal Prep: Chicken Fried Rice
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons unsalted butter; 1 tablespoon sesame oil; 2 large eggs, beaten; 3 cups cooked short-grain brown rice, preferably a day or two old; 1½ cups cooked chicken chunks; 1½ cups frozen peas and carrots, thawed; 3 green onions, thinly sliced; 1 teaspoon garlic powder; ½ teaspoon red pepper flakes; ¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce, plus more for serving; 1 pound cooked green beans

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Chicken fried rice is a great option for quick to-go meals, particularly for work lunches. This recipe adds green beans for extra vegetable content to a traditional stir-fried rice with chicken. Making your favorite fried rice recipe is a great trick when you need to use up leftover rice. It actually works best when the rice is cold from the refrigerator a day or two after it's made! This quick and easy recipe is ready to go in just about 20 minutes.

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Servings: 4

Ready in: 20min PT20M

Ingredients

2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1 tablespoon sesame oil
2 large eggs, beaten
3 cups cooked short-grain brown rice, preferably a day or two old
1½ cups cooked chicken chunks
1½ cups frozen peas and carrots, thawed
3 green onions, thinly sliced
1 teaspoon garlic powder
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce, plus more for serving
1 pound cooked green beans

Directions

Melt butter and oil together in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Cook eggs in the oil, moving continually with a spatula until cooked into small curds.
Stir rice, chicken, peas and carrots, green onions, garlic powder, and red pepper flakes with the egg; cook until rice begins to brown, about 2 minutes.
Reduce heat to medium-low.
Stir ¼ cup soy sauce into the rice mixture; cook for 1 minute.
Remove from heat and allow rice to cool completely.
Divide rice and cooked green beans between 4 resealable containers; garnish with green onions.
Pour additional soy sauce into portion cups; place into containers.
Seal containers and refrigerate meals for up to 4 days.

Mealthy tip:

Love spice? Feel free to add a little more red pepper flakes or even add a drizzle of sriracha for added heat!

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Cara Larson says:

Yum! I had to make with freshly cooked rice but it was still a big hit with the kids. We fried up some chicken nuggets (judge me if you want) and it turned out great.

McKenzie C says:

I always end up adding extra eggs to my fried rice, it never seems like enough. For this recipe I did three. Also, I didn't use any chicken for this recipe and I subbed garlic powder for minced garlic. Overall this was super yummy, and the kids love it too.

Melissa Hunter says:

I made this twice, and I can say hands down the day old rice was incredibly better.. The first time I made it, my "fried" rice turned out mushy because I cooked it that same night. This was better than takeout! Use day old rice!

Tiana D. says:

I was able to make this recipe completely out of my freezer and pantry, which is a total plus for a working mom. This recipe made enough leftovers for our family to eat it all week. I used a bag of frozen veggies and carrots I needed to use up. Quick and easy!

Sam Dalton says:

Perfect fried rice recipe and great for my weekly meal prep. Next time I will try it with another protein like shrimp or steak.

Laura Griffin says:

I'm obsessed with chicken fried rice, it's one of my favorite things to order for take-out. I decided to go out on a whim and make it myself. It was so yummy! Using two day old rice was perfect, I don't know why I had not thought of that before. The rice wasn't mushy at all, like the previous failed attempts at making fried rice. This recipe is fantastic.