What to make with rice and soy sauce
Rice and soy sauce is the bones of every Asian weeknight dinner in the world. Fried rice, rice bowls, egg-and-rice over a hot pan — five minutes if the rice is leftover. Built by a working chef.
Four ways to cook rice and soy sauce tonight
- Real fried rice. Use day-old rice. Screaming-hot wok, eggs first, then rice, then aromatics, soy at the end. Never sooner.
- Egg fried rice with scallions. Beat eggs into hot oil, add cold rice and break apart, drizzle soy and sesame oil, finish with scallions.
- Soy-glazed rice bowls with crispy tofu. Crisp tofu cubes hard, glaze in soy + honey + ginger, spoon over rice with cucumber and scallion.
- Spam musubi (the obsession food). Sear spam slices, glaze with soy and sugar, sandwich on rice with nori.
The one thing chefs do that home cooks skip
always cook the rice the day before for fried rice. Fresh rice is too wet — it steams instead of fries. Cold rice, hot wok, dry grains = real fried rice.
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