Bethany's Vegan Kitchen

This vegan fried rice is a tasty combination of mock chicken, rice and vegetables. This time I’m using mock chicken I bought recently from an Asian supermarket. It’s the type that is often used in Chinese takeaways, and it’s made from a mixture of seitan and tofu. It does look eerily realistic, with some pieces even looking like chicken skin. So if that bothers you, please feel free to use an alternative brand of mock chicken. Also, as usual with fried rice, using day old rice works the best. I’d recommend using  Easy Vegan Sesame Rice for this, it’s what I used and it worked really well

Serves; Two Cook time: 15 minutes

You’ll need;

1. On tablespoon of oil
2. One medium sized carrot, this was roughly 70g, finely diced
3. One red pepper, diced
4. Four spring onions, this was roughly 30g, thinly sliced
5. 100g of frozen shelled edamame beans
6. 180g mock chicken
7. One tablespoon of soy sauce
8. Half a teaspoon of Chinese five spice
9. 250g of Easy Vegan Sesame Rice (this is the cooked weight)
10. One quarter of a teaspoon of both white and black sesame seeds

Method;

• Start by heating the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Once it’s warmed up, add in the carrot and cook for five minutes
• Next, add in the red pepper and edamame beans. Give them five minutes to cook
• Then thinly slice the bottom half of each spring onion and add it to the frying pan. Thinly slice the rest of the onion and reserve this for garnishing with before serving
• Add the mock chicken and stir it through the vegetables. Drizzle over the soy sauce and give everything a good stir before adding the rice
• Stir the rice through the mock chicken and vegetables until everything is evenly mixed together, then give it five minutes to heat through
• Finally season the rice with the remaining thinly sliced spring onion and the white and black sesame seeds. Serve immediately

If you would prefer to use plain rice, I would recommend adding an additional tablespoon of soy sauce along with two tablespoons of toasted sesame oil. Otherwise the fried rice may be underseasoned