Fried Rice Explosion!

Meal: 
Dinner
Course: 
Main
Total Time: 
15 min
Prep Time: 
5 min

A different twist to make your fried rice. Sweet, crunchy, salty, healthy, and you can make it even during an emergency! Try it and experience a wonderful explosion in your mouth!

Recipe Ingredients: 
  • 2 cups - Cooked Rice (brown, white or wild) Your choice!
  • 1 tsp / a pinch or two - Fried garlic
  • 1 tablespoon - EVOO (Extra Virgin Olive Oil)
  • To taste - Salt and ground black pepper
  • Approximately 1 cup - Diced dried fruits (featured ingredients): apricots, mangoes, pineapples, raisins and plantains
  • Approximately 1 cup - Nuts (cashews, almonds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, pine nuts)
Directions: 
  1. Turn up your stove to medium heat.
  2. Put about a tablespoon of EVOO on the pan when it is hot.
  3. Add the cooked rice, sprinkle about a pinch or two of the cooked garlic, and salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Mix until all the ingredients are well blended.
  5. Add the nuts and the dried fruits and mix/stir it well until all ingredients are hot.
  6. Turn off the stove and serve.
Cooking Tips: 

Usually on a normal fried rice recipe, you cook the garlic first, but because the fried garlic is already cooked-- it easily burns. That's why putting the rice in first will prevent the garlic to burn.