Salt & Pepper Meat-Free Chick'n With Egg Fried Rice
For this takeaway classic, you'll coat meat-free chicken pieces in cornflour and fry until golden. Finish cooking it with ginger, garlic and chilli for extra flavour, and serve over speedy egg fried rice.
Ingredients for 2 people
Cooking for 3? 1 and a half for each ingredient Cooking for 4? Double each ingredient
You'll also need
Pepper, Salt, Sugar, Vegetable oil, Water (or dietary alternatives)
Cooking instructions
Instructions for 2 [for 3] [for 4] portion recipe.
Add your white long grain rice to a pot with a lid with 225ml [300ml] [450ml] cold water and bring to the boil over a high heat
Once boiling, reduce the heat to very low and cook, covered, for 12-15 min or until all the water has absorbed and the rice is cooked, then once done, transfer the rice to a plate and spread it out flat to help cool down
While the rice is cooking, add your cornflour to a bowl along with 1 tsp [1 1/2 tsp] [2 tsp] sugar, a very generous pinch of salt, your five-spice mix and a generous grind of black pepper and mix it all together
Add your meat-free chick'n to the bowl and give everything a good mix up until all the pieces are coated
Heat a large, wide-based pan (preferably non-stick) with a very large drizzle of vegetable oil over a medium-high heat
Once the pan is very hot, add the coated meat-free chick'n and cook for 5-6 min on each side until golden and crispy – this is your crispy meat-free chick'n
While the meat-free chick'n is cooking, trim, then roughly chop your spring onions into batons
Peel (scrape the skin off with a teaspoon) and finely chop (or grate) your ginger
Peel and finely chop (or grate) your garlic
Finely slice your red chilli[es] into rounds
Once the meat-free chick'n is crispy, add the spring onion batons, chilli rounds (can't handle the heat? Go easy!), chopped garlic and chopped ginger to the pan and cook for 2-3 min until fragrant
Once done, transfer everything to a plate (save the pan!) and set aside until serving – this is your salt & pepper meat-free chick'n
Return the reserved pan to a medium-high heat with a drizzle of vegetable oil
Once hot, add the cooled rice, blanched peas, toasted sesame oil and soy sauce and cook for 2-3 min until everything is combined
Once combined, push the rice to one side of the pan and crack your egg[s] into the other side
Stir the egg[s] with a wooden spoon to break the yolk[s] and cook for 1-2 min until it resembles scrambled egg, then mix it all through the rice – this is your egg fried rice
Serve the salt & pepper meat-free chick'n over the egg fried rice
Enjoy!
Nutritional information
Nutritional information only applies to ingredients supplied by Gousto.
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The cooking process and additional ingredients added at home (listed under “You'll also need”) will affect total values.
Allergens
Allergens highlighted by † (celery, egg, fish, gluten, mustard, nut, peanut, sesame, soya).
In addition to the recipe specific allergen information provided, due to production and packing methods Gousto boxes may also contain low levels of the following allergens: Cereals containing gluten; Crustaceans; Eggs; Fish; Peanuts; Soya; Milk; Nuts: almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, cashews, pecan nuts, brazil nuts, pistachio nuts, macadamia nuts; Celery; Sesame; Sulphur dioxide and Sulphites; Lupin; Molluscs; Mustard.
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