Egg fried rice experiment

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Happiness is finding food storage that you like enough to eat even when there arent hordes of zombies roaming the streets.

Tried making egg fried rice this evening and to my surprise it came out pretty darn good. I was surprised because the ingredients were pretty unimpressive.

1 cup cooked rice
couple tablespoons cooking oil
salt
green onion, sliced
three eggs

Beat three eggs lightly, add a pinch of salt and a little bit of the green onions and then beat some more.
Heat oil in wok and add eggs, scrambling and cooking until theyre about half done
Add rice and mix really really well
Cook with frequent stirring until eggs are dry, rice is thoroughly coated. Add remaining onions and cook another minute or two.

Its good by itself with some soy cauce. Where it really shines is as a base for adding whatever is handy like chicken or othermeats and whatever vegetables (or sprouts) you have laying about.

The original recipe calls for some green peas as well but I dont care for green peas so I omitted them. However, Mountain House makes freezedried (FD) green peas. The dehydrated eggs, rice and cooking oil can all be stored longterm and dehydrated or FD onions could be substituted for the green onions.

Good meal, filling, hearty, requires minimal prep and the cost is less than $1 for a large serving.

15 thoughts on “Egg fried rice experiment”

  1. It’s good to know we’ll all be eating well in The End Times thanks to The Commander. I’ve completely switched over to using dehydrated egg for pancakes because I don’t notice the difference.

    But zombies just make everything taste better. Like campfires.

  2. It’s even easier to get bags (or 55 gallon drums!) of Krusteaz pancake mix, which already has everything except the water and makes great pancakes 😉

  4. I just made fried rice this week. The base was your recipe. Of course, I made it all fancy by adding a lot more stuff. bought some Chinese style sausage which we added along with some chicken. I had a bag of inexpensive frozen salad (read small) shrimp in the freezer so we added some of those, too.

    I’ve found that it’s good to add pepper to fried rice too.

  5. Day old rice works the best. Too fresh rice is wet & sticky and won’t let the egg and spices ( salt, pepper, soy etc) coat well. BTW the traditional cooking order is veggies first, meats then sauce and assembly/serving.

  8. another

    source for dried eggs is usually in the baking section of the supermarket. and did you know hormel now sells fully cooked baccon strips in a shelf storage pouch? Wildflower 06

  10. Re: another

    can always try frying strips of spam. meanwhile stay free and alive. Wildflower 06

  11. Have you ever ordered from HoneyVille Grains? I’ve never tried their dried egg cans, but they look to be pretty decently priced. I have an order coming in today, actually (their flat shipping is quite handy when buying bulk foods); unfortunately just wheat and steel-cut oats. I’d almost tossed on a can of the eggs, now I wish I had!

  13. Re: Blast to the past

    Thanks! I hear they can vary widely. Haven’t tried ’em yet myself, but I’m starting in on food storage and eggs seem a fine thing to look at. If nothing else, I use eggs now.

    I take it you got a better supply than little six-ounce pouches from REI.

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