Easy Make Ahead Freezer Friendly Fried Rice Recipe! (2024)

By Karrie on January 11, 2011 | Updated May 6, 2019 | 61 Comments

This easy fried rice is a quick family favorite recipe. It can be made with or without meat.

Use chicken, pork, tofu or leave it plain! Make a big batch and freeze it for later. Win-Win-Win.

Today I am making a few meals out of one roasted chicken. If you missed Meal #1 Roast Chicken instructions you are in luck. I posted it a bit ago.

I love making a roast chicken because it allows me to make a few meals out of that first one.

Other reasons…

Its cheap

thrifty

saves time

and hey, more time means more time for couponing right?

3.5 Cups uncooked rice
Sesame Oil
8-10 Eggs
1 cup Leftover Roast Chicken (or ham or any other kind of meat really) chopped
Package of frozen mixed vegetables (or use your food processor and finely chop any kinds of veggies you have lyin’ around…example broccoli, cabbage, carrots, celery, onion, etc.)
1/3 cup Chicken Soup Base from Winco (or 1-2 packages Fried Rice seasoning mix)

Cook your Rice according to package instructions.

If you are making dinner ahead of time you can chill the rice, or if making it last minute like I do, just let the rice steam an additional 15 minutes after it is done after the heat is off.

Next, Mix your eggs, add a dash of salt n pepper. Then go ahead and scramble-cook them.

I normally just add a little butter to the pan. Then continually scrape pan and cook till done. Set eggs aside in a bowl.

Using the same pan, add 1/4 cupsesame oil. Toss in chopped roasted chicken or other meat.

Cook for a few minutes.

Then add your vegetables and chicken soup base/seasoning packets to the chicken and cook until vegetables are done.

It should look like this when done.

Add in your egg mixture.

Then just add your mix to the cooked rice.

Mix it all up and serve. Yum!

For Freezer Meal cooking you can add your cooked Fried Rice to gallon ziploc bags or in a 9×13 size pan covered with foil. Often I do the 9×13 size because I can just take it out of the freezer and put in the oven for about 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees to heat through.

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Fried Rice Recipe

Published By Karrie

Course Dinner, Main Course

Cuisine Asian

Keyword asian, rice

Servings 6

Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 30 minutes mins

Fried Rice is a quick family favourite meal!

Ingredients

▢ 3.5 cups Uncooked Rice
▢ 1/4 cup Sesame Oil
▢ 8 Eggs
▢ 1 cup Leftover Roast Chicken chopped or ham or any other kind of meat really
▢ 16 oz Package of frozen mixed vegetables (or use your food processor and finely chop any kinds of veggies you have lyin around...example broccoli cabbage, carrots, celery, onion, etc.)
▢ 1/3 cup Chicken Soup Base from Winco or 1-2 packages Fried Rice seasoning mix

Instructions

Cook your Rice according to package instructions. If you are making dinner ahead of time you can chill the rice, or if making it last minute like I do, just let the rice steam an additional 15 minutes after it is done after the heat is off.
Next, Mix your eggs, add a dash of salt n pepper. Then go ahead and scramble-cook them. I normally just add a little butter to the pan. Then continually scrape pan and cook till done. Set eggs aside in a bowl.
Using the same pan, add 1/4 cup sesame oil. Toss in chopped roasted chicken or other meat. Cook for a few minutes.
Then add your vegetables and chicken soup base/seasoning packets to the chicken and cook until vegetables are done.
Then just add your mix to the cooked rice.
Mix it all up and serve. Yum!
For Freezer Meal cooking you can add your cooked Fried Rice to gallon freezer safe bags or in a 9x13 size pan covered with foil. Often I do the 9x13 size because I can just take it out of the freezer and put in the oven for about 30-40 minutes at 350 degrees to heat through.

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About Karrie

Food is my love language. But so is saving money. So I like to combine the two a lot and make thrifty make ahead and freeze meals to save time. Because life is busy, and freezer meals can come to the rescue for all of us. And yes, they actually CAN taste good. Read more...

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