Vegetable Fried Rice with Bacon

One of SoupAddict’s second tier New Year’s resolutions was to eat out less—eat more self-cooked, less-processed food—and save money in the process. She’s been doing pretty good with this resolution, especially for lunches, consuming lots of this and this and this.

She’s even better on the weekends: SoupAddict has found simple enjoyment in cooking a hot, fast lunch (rather than stopping at her guilty pleasure fast-food chain, Penn Station, for their crazy-delicious french fries). SoupAddict loves rice—it’s one of her favorite foundation ingredients. Everything goes with rice. Fried rice? Even better. Lots of veggies, stir fried? Yes, please. And get this, people: glazed bacon.

SoupAddict is becoming very antsy for summer vegetables and has been drawn to recipes in the foodie mags featuring anything resembling them. (Okay, yes, mushrooms are not veggies, they’re fungus, but bear with SoupAddict here.)

This is Uncle Ben’s Whole Grain Brown Rice. Yummy and quick. It cooks while SoupAddict is slicing veggies with blazing speed and frying them up in her wok.

SoupAddict grossly underestimated the deliciousness of the glazed bacon in this recipe, and took only one photograph (and used only one slice [sob!]). SoupAddict exposes her mistakes to the Interwebs so that you will not have to suffer the same fate. The sugar-coated bacon is amazing and worth the recipe alone.

Garlic, ginger and spicy stir fry sauce sizzles in glazed bacon grease.

Next, broccoli gets its turn frolicking in the glazed bacon grease. SoupAddict wishes she could take a turn, too, but knows that oil burns is not her best look.

Then everyone joins in the glazed bacon grease fun.

Delicious brown rice gets a coating of spicy stir fry sauce. Meanwhile, SoupAddict takes a swig right out of the bottle.

Action photo goodness! SoupAddict loves this long exposure shot of an egg diving head first into the pan.

Scrambled eggs in glazed bacon grease and spicy stir fry sauce. With rice. And veggies. And glazed bacon. SoupAddict is beside herself.

Penn Station, eat your heart out. (But SoupAddict still loves your fries.)

Karen xo

Print Recipe

Vegetable Fried Rice with Bacon

Prep Time15 mins

Cook Time15 mins

Total Time30 mins

Course: Main Course

Cuisine: American

Servings: 2

Calories: 290kcal

Author: Karen Gibson

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
• 1/4 pound thick-cut bacon cut into 1/4-inch pieces
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 2 1/4 teaspoons spicy stir fry sauce or soy sauce
• 3 cloves garlic thinly sliced
• 1 2- inch piece ginger peeled and minced
• 1 pinch red pepper flakes
• 1/2 head broccoli florets cut into 1/4-inch pieces
• 1 carrot sliced into thin disks
• 1 scallion thinly sliced
• 1/4 pound mushrooms sliced
• 2-4 tablespoons water
• 2 cups cooked long-grain white rice or your favorite
• 2 large eggs

Instructions

• Place a wok or large skillet over high heat. Add the vegetable oil and bacon and stir-fry until golden and crisp, about 2 minutes. Sprinkle the sugar over the bacon and toss. Add 1/4 teaspoon soy sauce (watch out-the oil will bubble up) and continue to stir-fry until the bacon is glazed, about 30 seconds. Transfer the bacon to a bowl with a slotted spoon. Add the garlic, ginger and red pepper flakes to the drippings in the pan and stir-fry until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the broccoli and cook until crisp, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the other vegetables and cook an additional 2 to 3 minutes. Add the rice, the remaining 2 teaspoons soy sauce. Add water by the tablespoon until the dish is moist. Do not add too much, or it will become mushy.
• Toss to heat through.
• Push the fried rice to one side of the pan, crack the eggs into the other side and scramble until set, about 1 minute. Mix the eggs into the rice and stir. Divide among bowls and serve with mustard or chili sauce, if desired.

Nutrition

Calories: 290kcal

Nutritional information, if shown, is provided as a courtesy only, and is not to be taken as medical information or advice. The nutritional values of your preparation of this recipe are impacted by several factors, including, but not limited to, the ingredient brands you use, any substitutions or measurement changes you make, and measuring accuracy.