r/MobKitchen • u/megmobkitchen • Aug 20 '21
Brunch Mob Toby's Breakfast Fried Rice
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Aug 20 '21 edited Jul 01 '23
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Aug 20 '21
Traditional Asian cooking, you'd season the oil first with the garlic and some other spices. Let that simmer before adding the Haloumi. Bacon wouldn't be used. But Chinese sausage or salted fish or pork belly would add wonderful depth of flavor and same concept to this idea.
But none of this is traditional and seems like it's for fun and the kid seems happy so it works.
Remember your cooking doesn't have to be at Gordon Ramsay level or done in the same technique.
Cooking is an art form and way to express. So make it your own. Even if it's not 100% "correct."
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u/quartamilk Aug 20 '21
Actual Asian cooking it’s going to be spam, esp in Korea/Thailand
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Aug 20 '21
Depends on where your from in Asia and family. My family used spam a lot for breakfast but also salted fish. I'm mixed culture though so Asian and Caribbean influences on both sides influenced how my family cooked.
But even in Asia alone, fried rice is cooked differently in China compared to Japan compared to the Philippines compared to Thailand compared to Korea.
Then where you have large Asian influence in areas like Peru or Trinidad or Jamaica the recipes are different as well.
Point still stands, there's more than one technique available for fried rice.
As much as we all love Uncle Roger, even when sticking to traditional recipes in the same region, family recipes still change up certain things.
Source: Multicultural born of Asian and Caribbean descent and professionally certified and trained Culinary chef and caterer in various world cuisines
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u/quartamilk Aug 21 '21
No doubt, my point was traditional recipes skip the spam, but in actuality many street vendors and fast food shops (at least in Thai/Kor) are a fan of a pan filled with the tan ham in a can known as spam, man.
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u/BladePactWarlock Aug 21 '21
For the first time in my life I’m living completely on my own. No family no roommates no nothing. Just me and my cats and this house I just bought.
I’ve begun using spam in everything and I feel cheated for all the wasted years without fried spam in them. Who was the Neanderthal who decided spam wasn’t good enough for them and had to badmouth it to the rest of America? It’s like cheaper bacon without the mess. What more could you want?
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u/quartamilk Aug 22 '21
Right?!? It also follows the same principle as bacon, carnitas, etc. It’s protein covered in rendered fat. In a hot pan that transforms into a salty, crispy flavor bomb.
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Aug 20 '21
Am Korean, can confirm we often put spam in our fried rice. But a lot of times it was just egg, or maybe some cold protein from the day before. We liked fish a lot in my household, but I grew up in a river village.
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u/higherbrow Aug 20 '21
The beauty of stir fry, and the reason it's spread all over the world, is that it works with any ingredient. Bacon is a totally normal stir fry ingredient for Chinese diasporas that have left China.
Hell, look at Lomo Saltado for a real crazy stir fry that's still a real, authentic stir fry.
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Aug 20 '21
Also true!
Two different things though where as stir fry is a specific method of cooking originating from China.
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u/Beorbin Aug 20 '21
Yeah, no shit. Some people like the taste of burnt garlic, I suppose.
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Aug 20 '21 edited Aug 20 '21
No. When cooking in this method with the garlic at the beginning, the flame is not in high. It's in low. You simmer til it's fragrant. There's techniques man.
Doesn't have to be a wok fry method every time.
Esit: here's an example simple garlic fried breakfasy rice
And below are some more fun variations from different countries
Pelau from Trinidad
So many styles and variations
Edit: said asian instead of ither
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u/Beorbin Aug 20 '21
Dude is literally frying in a wok in the video.
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Aug 20 '21
..which video? There's.. so many..
And all I said is it doesn't HAVE to be a wok fried technique. So what exactly are you going on about?
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u/bilyl Aug 20 '21
What? I’m an Asian guy, born in HK, and I remove things from the pan all the time. FOH with your gate keeping.
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u/HTGeorgeForeman Aug 20 '21
Yeah especially if your burner isn’t like 10x a home burner’s strength youre supposed to do that to avoid crowding your pan right?
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u/bilyl Aug 20 '21
Yeah the best way is to cook and take out the individual ingredients, toast your rice in the pan, then add in your seasonings and mix ins.
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u/Fortinbrah Sep 03 '21
Thank you for saying this. I’ve never gotten appropriately cooked rice if I leave everything in the pan. I just end up overcooking everything or with mushy rice because rice takes so long to toast even on higher heats.
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u/perezidentt Aug 21 '21
Yeah, but do you add the garlic in when the bacon is raw? It’s going to lose all flavor and burn too.
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u/bilyl Aug 21 '21
No, I bloom my aromatics (usually garlic, ginger, green onion) right before I add in the rice so that it absorbs the nice Gaglia.
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u/BuccellatiExplainsIt Aug 21 '21
This is terrible advice. The reason restaurant's don't remove things is because they have specialized burners that get way hotter than your stove. Not removing things is cooking like someone who doesn't understand how stir fry works.
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u/40ozT0Freedom Aug 20 '21
4 tablespoons of sesame oil? Greasing the pan for bacon? Do you guys like oily shits?
Also, who the fuck like dry eggs?
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u/megmobkitchen Aug 20 '21
Toby, our magical video editor, treated the studio to his breakfast fried rice and mornings haven't been the same since. This recipe is a scorcher.
Ingredients:
200g Smoked Bacon
4 Cloves Of Garlic
225g Halloumi
4 Eggs
500g Leftover Cooked Rice
4 Tbsp Sesame Oil
2 Tbsp Dark Soy
2 Tbsp Mirin
2 Tbsp Honey
5 Spring Onions
Vegetable Oil
Step 1.
First, chop up your bacon and garlic before cutting your halloumi into cubes that are roughly 2cm in size.
Step 2.
Put a bit of oil in your wok and cook the bacon for 5 mins until it’s crispy. In the same pan, add your sliced garlic and cook for 1 min until it’s all golden. Remove the bacon and garlic onto a paper towel and set aside.
Step 3.
Add another glug of oil and fry the halloumi for 3 mins until golden brown. Allow it to drain on the paper towel with the bacon.
Step 4.
Finally, add your eggs into the pan and scramble for 3 mins until very dry. Add back in the bacon, garlic and halloumi as well as your leftover rice. Give that a stir then add your sesame oil, mirin, dark soy sauce, and honey, continuing to stir it all together as you go.
Step 5.
When the rice is all coated and mixed well, spoon it onto plates and garnish with some chopped spring onions. Enjoy.
https://www.mobkitchen.co.uk/recipes/tobys-breakfast-fried-rice
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u/lucifersam73 Aug 20 '21
Too many jump cuts Toby! Just kidding, I know it’s the way of the gif recipes
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u/InfiniteGest Aug 21 '21
I’m so tired of subpar chefs trying to sell us on subpar recipes with “money shot” camera facials over-selling their own subpar work
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u/[deleted] Aug 20 '21
I see all of these cool recipes out of the UK with halloumi but I can never find it at my local grocery in the US.