Sometimes I end up with the weirdest one offs of meat like pre cooked burger patties for free. Fried rice is the perfect way to use them up and clear out any veg scraps too.
This is the time added fresh ginger. I planted some and now have a supply of fresh ginger to use without paying a fortune.
Eggs free from the yard.
Cost per person: maybe $1
For the past month, every time I open the freezer and see the leftover box of burgers from 4th of July I just sigh and shut the door.
Thank you so much for this!
We used to make fried rice almost every weekend, sometimes with ham, spam, hotdog, longanisa, chorizo, kielbasa, etc… until the price of eggs went up to $10 a dozen.
I struggled to think of a use for these precooked burgers and hiding them in fried rice just seemed like the best option. Other ideas I considered were boxed mac and cheese or pizza.
Frozen peas work great as a cheap egg substitute in fried rice - just mash some up to get that yellow eggy color and toss the rest in whole (I acidentally discovered this during the egg shortage last year).