Bacon Fried Rice
Forget your usual homemade fried recipe! This bacon fried rice is packed with amazing flavors and it’s perfect for a weeknight meal!
So, I can imagine that everyone has that one recipe that they just find completely irresistible. Like, it’s so good that you almost don’t want it around because you know you won’t be able to stop yourself from eating it until you make yourself sick.
This recipe right here? It’s my one recipe. It’s freakin’ dangerous, you guys.
When I make this, I eat it for breakfast, lunch, and dinner until I finally run out altogether. It’s ridiculous and embarrassing, but it’s the truth. This is my kryptonite.
If you’ve never made homemade fried rice before, I promise you it’s easy. And if you’ve made it and were disappointed, I guarantee that’s not going to happen here!
One of the big tricks with fried rice is to start with cold cooked rice. I know…when you want fried rice, you don’t want to wait. But, trust me – it makes the rice so much more authentic tasting. It gets more of that chewiness that is so good in the take-out fried rice.
You don’t need any special equipment, just a large non-stick skillet! If you’d prefer to use a wok, this is the one I have and we LOVE it! It allows us to easily make a double batch in one go, which is perfect since we like to eat this for breakfast the next day!
This fried recipe recipe is seasoned to the max with lots of bacon, some veggies, and a teensy squirt of sriracha. You can leave out the sriracha if you truly dislike spice, but even just adding a little bit makes a big difference in flavor without adding too much spice. And, of course, if you love spice, go ahead and add extra! I’m on the wimpy side of spice tolerance, unfortunately. I want to be all tough, but I’m really just a crybaby.
This makes an excellent meal and will serve two people as a main dish or four as a side dish. If you make it as a main, I suggest serving it with some egg rolls or pot stickers. My sausage egg rolls would be particularly good with this and the dipping sauce would be great served over the rice, if you wanted a break from plain old soy sauce.
My kids prefer their rice slathered in copious amounts of Yum Yum Sauce. You can find Yum Yum here – they like the original flavor, but I prefer the spicy version.
If you like this bacon fried rice, try my pork lo mein too!
Bacon Fried Rice
Forget your usual homemade fried recipe! This bacon fried rice is packed with amazing flavors and it's perfect for a weeknight meal!
Ingredients
- 1 cup long grain white rice
- 2 cups water
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 slices thick cut bacon diced
- 1/2 sweet onion diced
- 1 cup frozen peas and carrots
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce divided
- 1 teaspoon minced ginger
- 1 teaspoon sriracha or other favorite hot sauce
- 2 green onions chopped
Instructions
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Place the rice and water in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil. Reduce to a simmer, cover, and continue cooking for 15 minutes or until the liquid has evaporated and the rice is mostly tender. Remove from the heat and let sit for 5 minutes.
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Place the rice in a large shallow dish such as a pie plate, and put in the refrigerator to cool for 1 hour.
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When the rice is cool, begin cooking the diced bacon over medium heat in a large, deep skillet. Cook bacon until cooked through, but still chewy and not too crisp. Remove with a slotted spoon to a paper towel lined plate.
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Drain the grease from the pan into a coffee cup, leaving 1 tablespoon of grease behind.
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Add the onions to the pan and cook over medium heat until translucent, about 5 minutes.
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Add the carrots and peas and ginger to the pan and continue cooking for 2 minutes. Remove from the pan and set aside.
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Add another tablespoon of bacon grease to the pan and heat until sizzling over high heat.
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Add the cold rice to the bacon grease and stir to coat. Continue cooking, stirring often, for 5 minutes.
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Push the rice to the side of the pan to make room for the eggs. Beat the eggs together in a small bowl with 1 teaspoon of soy sauce. Pour into the pan and stir to scramble.
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When the eggs are cooked through, stir into the rice. Return the vegetables and bacon to the pan. Add the remaining 2 teaspoons of soy sauce and sriracha to the rice and stir to coat while cooking over high heat. Sprinkle the green onion over the top and remove from the heat.
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Taste and add more soy sauce or hot sauce as desired. Serve immediately.
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I can totally see why this would be your kryptonite… and eating it for breakfast makes sense. It’s bacon and eggs!! I will have to try this!
Fried rice just got better. I have a big order of bacon coming from Zaycon soon. My life will be so much more simple. Whenever anyone asks “What’s for______?” I’ll answer “Bacon Fried Rice” they will all cheer and life will be better.
Who knew bacon fried rice was the answer to world hunger and peace.
Yum! This looks amazing, of course anything with bacon is amazing. Can’t wait to make this!
Yummy! After seeing these pictures I am just craving for bacon fried rice! 🙂
Might I suggest using frozen peas instead of canned? They won’t mush up and are a brighter green. I drizzle a little bit of toasted sesame oil at the very end, only a teaspoon or less, and give the rice a toss to distribute it. I rough chop some peanuts to sprinkle on top along with the green onions. Fried rice just isn’t fried rice without either bacon or ham. I love the smoky flavor.
Well, you had me at “Bacon” and then I saw the rest! Love fried rice and bacon can only make it better, need to try this!
Looks amazing and pictures are gorgeous! Pinned to try it!
Hope I didn’t miss this but could the nutritional information be added to the recipe? Would help those of us who are wanting (very badly) to try this recipe but need the amount of fat, protein, carbs, vitamins, etc. that are found in a 1 cup serving size. Would be so appreciative if this information is included. Many thanks.
Hi Louanne! I don’t provide this information, but you’re welcome to plug the recipe into a nutritional calculator yourself. 🙂
Just a note on your site – you showed multiple images of the finished product, most of them essentially the same. Perhaps you can either limit the number or add images of the preparation, as so many others do.
When do you add the ginger?
Whoops – left that out. I add it with the peas and carrots.
Is it 1 cup of peas and 1 cup of carrots or 1/2 cup of both to equal 1 full cup?
I use a bag of frozen mixed peas and carrots or a can of mixed and use 1 cup total. If you aren’t using a mixed bag, you can do 1/2 cup of each.
This can also be made low carb by using cauliflower fried rice! https://www.facebook.com/BestRecipeBox/videos/1353270048025694/
You mentioned that your kids use “Yum Yum Sauce” in the heading. What is that? Thanks!! I’m definitely going to make this recipe. I LOVE fried rice!!
Please tell us about Yum Yum sauce? I bet there are lots of kids that would like it. I love the fried rice recipe.
It’s the orange sauce you get at hibachi restaurants. 🙂
Thank you! That is really good stuff. This big kid loves it. Thank you for making fried rice simple. The recipe is easy and really good.
Looks yummy and can’t wait to try the recipe. I saw a comment that someone eats this for breakfast, how clever. Our family loves Terry Ho Yum Yum Sauce too. It will make even salad taste great. ?
Made this for dinner tonight and it was delicious! I only had frozen peas with no carrots (not even fresh) but besides that this was literally ALL stuff I had on hand! Even down to the leftover cold rice from yesterday’s dinner! So it worked out perfectly. Thanks so much for sharing !
Glad you enjoyed it!
Made this tonight (minus the ginger, carrots & peas) w ingredients I had on hand. It was delicious. Can’t wait to try it again w the veggies. Thank you for sharing.
So glad you enjoyed it!
What can i use in place of eggs? I would like to try this but have an egg allergy
You could leave the eggs out entirely.