Air Fryer Fried Rice (with or without Egg)

Air Fryer Fried Rice (with or without Egg)

This Air Fryer Fried Rice is a quick dinner idea using leftover rice and is a great side dish to all your Asian dishes. It is totally customizable with whatever you have on hand.

Course Air Fryer

Cuisine Asian

Keyword air fryer fried rice

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 7

Total Time 12

Servings Servings

Calories 554kcal

Author Maria Doss

Ingredients

3 cups cooked leftover rice
2 eggs
½ to 1 cup frozen peas and carrots
¼ cup chopped onion
2 tablespoons soy sauce or use as per taste
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoons oyster sauce optional
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon butter
3 scallions chopped
½ teaspoon ground black pepper or to taste

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Instructions

Grease a 8-inch oven safe round cake pan with non-stick cooking spray and set aside.
Add eggs, soy sauce, vegetable oil, oyster sauce (if using), sesame oil and ground black pepper into a large bowl and whisk until thoroughly combined. Stir in rice, until evenly combined. Stir in vegetables and chopped onion.
Transfer rice into the greased baking dish and spread evenly.
Pre heat air fryer to 350 degrees F for 6 minutes.
When hot, place the baking pan in the air fryer basket and cook, STIRRING every 2 to 3 minutes. When done, stir in butter and chopped scallion. Serve hot.
Optional finishes - A squirt of Sriracha and/or more soy sauce

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Notes

VEGETABLES

Any frozen vegetable combination you have on hand will work with this recipe. When using fresh vegetables (like carrot or green beans), make sure to chop them about ¼-inch dice and not bigger. Or skip vegetables all together.

Variations

Chicken fried rice - Stir ½ to 1 cup chopped rotisserie chicken when mixing in vegetables.

Shrimp fried rice - Place raw, peeled and patted dry shrimp on top of the mixed rice (in a single layer) before placing in the air fryer. Stir every 2 to 3 minutes as instructed.

Kimchi fried rice - Fresh kimchi adds a major flavor boost to fried rice. Just chop and stir it in to make kimchi fried rice.

Egg fried rice - If you’d like pieces of egg like a traditional fried rice, then skip mixing the egg along with rice. Toss rice with sauces/vegetables and transfer to the baking dish, evenly pour beaten eggs on top of the rice, cook, stirring every 2 to 3 minutes as mentioned.

Sriracha fried rice - Stir in sriracha at the along with butter

Cold rice – Cold refrigerated rice, preferably day old is perfect. Hot cooked rice will turn slightly mushy when stirred together.

Soy sauce is your best friend. Little to a lot is all up to you. Don’t be afraid to go wild or stay true to the recipe.

Oyster Sauce – It is a key ingredient in making this delicious rice. If you do not eat seafood, you can leave out the sauce and your fried rice will still be great. Oyster sauce can be found at the Asian section of all major US grocery stores / Asian super markets / Amazon. However.

Toasted Sesame oil – Essential in making an authentic tasting fried rice, but a little goes a long way.

Make it gluten free– Use gluten free soy sauce and oyster sauceAir fryer – We used Instant Vortex 6 quart air fryer to make this recipe.

Baking pan – We used an 8-inch round baking pan that fit perfectly in the 6 quart air fryer.

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