When you’re craving fried rice, don’t pick up the phone and order takeout. Instead, you can make a more scrumptious and luxurious XO fried rice bowl using XO sauce and leftovers that tastes even better. I recently shared a recipe for homemade XO sauce. It’s an incredibly rich sauce that has a seafoody umami flavor with both savory and sweet notes to it. The taste is fantastic with pretty much any rice or noodle dish. And for fried rice, it’s absolutely amazing. You may have seen XO fried rice on the menu at your local Chinese restaurant. But this one tastes even better. This recipe is loaded with more goodies. There are plenty of eggs and Chinese BBQ pork in this homemade version that no restaurant could match. All you need to do is throw it all together and you’ll have a real treat for dinner, super quick.
Ingredients
In my fried rice recipes, I usually include some veggies. But in this XO fried rice recipe, I decided to skip them. That’s because the luxuriously rich taste of the XO sauce, along with the char siu pork, is something you won’t want to distract your taste buds from.
Cooking process
Cooking XO fried rice couldn’t be easier. All you need to do is: If you’d like to add something green to the meal, chop up some broccoli or Chinese broccoli stems, but leave it at that. Other vegetables will overpower the dish with their taste. Alternatively, you can balance your meal by steaming veggies separately, then adding them on top of your XO fried rice with a nice extra drizzle of XO sauce to pull it all together.
Afterthought
This is not the healthiest fried rice I’ve made, but it’s one of the tastiest! The oil from the XO sauce will crisp up the rice and the result is irresistible. It’s so rich and satisfying that I’d totally serve it as a main dish. Besides cooking this dish to enjoy for dinner at home, it’s also perfect for parties. Because it’s extremely easy to cook, yet still luxurious. And it stores and reheats well. Want to learn more about Chinese Cooking? Sign up my newsletter to receive the 5-Day Chinese Cooking Crash Course and recipe update! If you give this recipe a try, let us know! Leave a comment, rate it (once you’ve tried it), and take a picture and tag it @omnivorescookbook on Instagram! I’d love to see what you come up with.
More delicious char siu pork recipes
Char Siu Chow MeinChar Siu (Chinese BBQ Pork, 叉烧肉)Baked BBQ Pork Buns (Char Siu Bao)Char Siu Bao (Steamed BBQ Pork Buns) 叉烧包Scallion Biscuits & Char Siu Gravy
Lilja Walter is a part of the Omnivore’s Cookbook team and worked closely with Maggie to develop and test this recipe.
