Giving up or cutting down on rice, especially fried rice can be difficult, fried cauliflower rice is a great substitute. With this recipe, although not identical it gets pretty close in flavour and texture to fried rice.
If you’re not ready to give up the rice yet, we have an excellent Chinese Egg Fried Rice Recipe for you instead.
Fried Cauliflower Rice Recipe
Yields: 2 – 4 serves
Duration: 15 minutes
Difficulty: easy
Ingredients
17 oz (500g)Frozen Cauliflower Rice
2 tsp Chicken stock powder
1/4 tsp Cooking salt (A pinch)
1 tsp Black pepper
1 Tbsp Soy sauce
2 tsp Kecap Manis (sweetened dark soy sauce)
1 Tbsp Granulated sugar
1 Bunch of Scallions, cut into 2 in (5CM) sticks
1 Large brown onion, slices
2 Cloves of garlic, finely chopped
3 Tbsp Olive oil
How To Make Fried Cauliflower Rice
Mix soy sauce, Kecap Manis, and sugar in a small mixing bowl, stir until sugar is dissolved and set aside. Cut up all of the ingredients so everything is ready to go.
Add olive oil into a hot work on high heat. Test the oil temperature with a small piece of onion, if it starts to fry, the oil is ready.
Add chopped garlic and onion slices, fry until aromatic and soften, for around 1 minute.
Add frozen cauliflower, stir to ensure the cauliflower is well coated with the hot oil and the onion.
Keep stirring until the cauliflower has softened, around 3 minutes.
Add salt and 1 tsp of the chicken stock powder, stir to combine and cook for at least 3-5 minutes.
Add the scallions, stir until they are wilted down a little, around 2 minutes.
Pour in the sauce mixture, stir to combine and fry until the sauce is all absorbed into the rice for around another 3-5 minutes.
Finally sprinkle black pepper on top of the rice as finishing touch.
Serve fresh from the wok.
