Fried Rice with Chicken and Vegetables

Ingredients:

• 1 cup of basmati rice
• 1 chicken breast (about 1lb), skinless and boneless
• 2 eggs
• 1 red bell pepper
• 3 spears of green onion
• Bunch of green beans (about 0.5 lb)
• Fresh ginger root, about 1 teaspoon of chopped one
• 3 tablespoons of soy sauce
• 0.5 teaspoon of sugar
• Salt to taste
• Oil for frying

How to prepare, step-by-step:

1. Prepare ingredients:

   

2. Fill cooking pot with water, bring to boil, add rinsed rice in, stir and cook on slow simmer until almost cooked, then pour it to the colander so water can go away and set aside:

   

3. While rice is being cooked, peel ginger root and chop it, you will need anywhere between 1 and 2 teaspoons of it (to your taste):

   

4. Clean green beans, bell pepper and onions, slice each bean in half, each onion in pieces about 2.5inch long and bell pepper in stripes:

   

5. Slice chicken breast into half inch thick stripes:

   

6. Warm up deep frying pan with some oil over moderately high heat; add all chicken in and fry until colored from one side:

   

7. Then flip chicken pieces to another side and fry more, until chicken if colored from all sides (about 4 mins), then move cooked chicken to a bowl, set aside:

   

8. Reduce heat under the pan to medium; crack 2 eggs in:

   

9. Salt them to taste (just eggs, rest of the dish will get salt from soy sauce):

   

10. And then scramble eggs using spatula:

    

11. Add chopped ginger:

    

12. Add sliced green onions, mix and fry for a minute:

    

13. Then add sliced green beans, mix and fry for a minute:

    

14. And add sliced bell pepper, stir everything:

    

15. Pour boiled rice to the pan:

    

16. Add 3 tablespoons of soy sauce:

    

17. Mix everything and cook for about 2 mins:

    

18. Add half teaspoon of sugar:

    

19. Pour cooked chicken along with any juices it produced:

    

20. Mix everything again and cook for 3 mins more:

    

21. Turn off heat and serve: