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Lychee fried rice with Chinese barbecue pork

Pailin's Kitchen · ♥ 1.3K likes · 65K views · 9 min video

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Ingredients
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  • canned lychees
  • lime juice
  • Chinese barbecue pork
Rinse the syrup off the canned lychees, squeeze a little lime juice over and tear each into three or four bite-sized pieces; do this first so they absorb the juice.
Preparing canned lychees
Cut the Chinese barbecue pork into small bite-sized pieces.
Buying and cutting the barbecue pork
  • Thai mushroom soy sauce
  • Golden Mountain sauce
  • black soy sauce
Combine the Thai mushroom soy sauce, Golden Mountain sauce and black soy sauce.
Mixing the sauces and dry seasoning
  • ground white pepper
  • sugar
  • five spice powder
Mix the dry seasoning: ground white pepper, sugar and five spice powder.
  • oil
Heat a little oil in the wok and cook the chopped garlic until the smallest bits turn golden.
  • chopped garlic
Add the barbecue pork and saute until hot, letting its fat render into the wok.
  • 2 whole eggs
Push the pork aside, add two eggs, break the yolks, let them set halfway with the pork over them, then scramble.
  • rice
Turn up the heat, add the rice and toss; add the sauces and the dry seasoning and toss until every grain is coated, pressing out lumps.
Frying and toasting the rice
With the heat nearly all the way up, let the rice sit and toast a little.
  • cashews
Add the lychees without their lime juice liquid, and the cashews; warm 20 to 30 seconds.
Lychees, cashews and green onions
  • green onions
Turn off the heat and add a whole bunch of green onions.
  • cucumber slices
  • 1 whole lime wedge
Plate, garnish with green onions, and serve with cucumber slices and a lime wedge to squeeze over.
Plating with cucumber and lime