This family friendly Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice recipe is the perfect easy weeknight (or weekend for that matter!) dinner and gets a big thumbs up from our entire household!
When I think about my go to recipes, this Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice is up there with my favourites. Not only do we all love it (and I end up with two empty little bowls on the table!) but it’s the perfect way to use up any vegetables we have in the crisper as well as any chicken, ham or any other meat (yep we’ve even had this with sausages) you also have which needs to be used.
You can really be as creative as you like when it comes to what vegetables you add, I often throw in zucchini, broccoli and even boiled eggs to this recipe. If you need any more encouragement to make this recipe, here it is: it’s freezer friendly! What are you waiting for?!?
Chicken and Vegetable Fried Rice
Ingredients
- 250 g of BBQ Chicken
- 4 rashes of shortcut bacon excess fat trimmed
- 1 stick of celery – finely chopped
- 1 carrot – grated
- 3 spring onions - finely chopped
- 1 capsicum – cut into small pieces
- Small tin of corn
- 50 g of raw cashews
- 1 cup of uncooked rice
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 pack of stirfry sauce – I use Kantong’s honey soy and garlic
- Extra soy sauce to taste
- 1 tablespoon of sweet chilli sauce – optional
Instructions
- In a wok, add the olive oil and bring to a high heat. Add the bacon and spring onions and cook for 2 minutes.
- Meanwhile bring a saucepan of water to the boil and add rice.
- Add the celery, carrot, capsicum and cashews and cook until the vegetables are just starting to get tender
- Add the cooked rice, corn and sauces to wok, mixing all ingredients together and cook for 3 minutes before transferring to individual bowls and adding some chopped BBQ Chicken.
- After adding sauces, I suggest tasting and adding extra sauce if you wish
What’s your favourite go to meal?
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Yummo! I love fried rice and love to discover a new fried rice recipe. This looks delicious. Recipe already printed. Thank you! 🙂
Lauren says
Oh thanks, I hope you enjoy it 🙂
HUgzilla says
My husband would marry you for this dish. For real.
Lauren says
Ha!
EssentiallyJess says
My kids are a bit iffy with fried rice, but even they might like this. It’s worth a shot!
Lauren says
It sure is, I hope they like it 🙂
mummywifeme says
I love your simple family dinners, Lauren. This is definitely something the kids would eat. xx
Lauren says
Thanks Renee x
Medeja says
I love such fried rice, but I have never added bacon.. My mistake 😀
Lauren says
If you like bacon it’s certainly worth adding it 🙂
Lucy @ Bake Play Smile says
Can you come and cook me dinner!!!? This looks great! Love how easy it is!
Lauren says
I’d be happy to!
Vanessa says
For some reason I am terrible at cooking rice, so the only time we have it is if I’ve somehow made a giant pot of it and frozen it for use at other times!
Lauren says
Oh no! It’s one of those things that can go bad really quickly when making it.
Vicki @ Boiled Eggs & Soldiers says
A perfect go to dinner! Thanks for linking to YWF x
Kate Lloyd says
I love this recipe. My little girl can’t have egg and finally I’ve come across a fried rice recipe that doesn’t have egg through it, although I’m sure you can add it. LOL
Fareeha says
Wow, this looks incredibly awesome. I could definitely do with it right now. I cn grab it right from the screen and gobble it up. lovely.
Kim @ Land of Zonkt says
I love a quick rice dish and this one is so easy but full of some tasty flavours there hun. So nice. Thanks for linking up to Your Weekly Feed lovely. xx
Lauren says
Thanks so much for hosting x