Kimchi and Pork Fried Rice

Tips & Tricks:

• 🔪 Skip steps with knife if you completed the prep ideas!
• 🥕 Make this recipe vegetarian or vegan by excluding the pork and purchasing vegetarian or vegan friendly kimchi. And add any other vegetables!
• 🐓 If you purchased a rotisserie chicken and have extra, use that instead of pork!
• 🍚 Rice is best if made ahead and refrigerated. But not a deal breaker if you don't get a chance.
• 🚨Check out the Leftover Alert at the end of this recipe.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup jasmine, basmati, or brown rice
• 6 oz pork tenderloin or pork chops
• 4 eggs
• 1-2 large ribs of celery
• 3 green onion
• 2-3 medium carrots
• 1/2 cup kimchi
• 1/4 bunch cilantro
• 1 tsp olive oil
• 1+ tbsp soy sauce or tamari for GF
• 2 tsp Rice wine vinegar

Optional Garnish

• cucumber, sliced
• lime

Directions:

1. 🔪 Veg and Pork Prep (can be done up to 3 days ahead)
1. Chop pork into 1 inch bite size pieces.
2. Thinly slice celery on the bias (example).
3. Thinly slice green and white parts of green onion.
4. Small dice the carrots.
5. Roughly chop up the kimchi into bite size pieces.
2. 🔪 Rice (can be made up to 3 days ahead)
1. Cook rice according to package instructions. Set aside or refrigerate until ready to use.
3. Eggs
1. Cook eggs (scramble style) in a hot non-stick pan with a dash of oil or butter. Cut into small pieces and set aside.
4. Pork
1. In the same pan, add some more oil and cook the pork seasoned with a pinch or two of salt. Let the pork sit for 1-2 minutes before flipping so each side can caramelize.
2. Set pork aside once all the pink has cooked away.
5. Cook Veg + Final Saute
1. In the same pan, add a dash more of oil and saute celery and carrots seasoned with salt, flipping occasionally.
2. Once veggies are soft, about 5-7 minutes, add in pork, rice, half the scallions, kimchi, eggs, 2 tsp of rice wine vinegar, and 1 tbsp at a time of soy sauce.
3. Stir everything together and add more soy sauce if desired. Continue to warm, mostly undisturbed to get the bottom layer of rice crispy, until rice is warmed through, about 5 minutes.
6. Serve
1. Serve immediately, topped with cilantro, more of the fresh scallions and (optionally) a few cucumber slices and a wedge of lime.

Reheat Options

1. Saute in a hot pan with a dash of oil for about 3-5 minutes, mostly undisturbed - only flipping or stirring 2 times.
2. Or microwave covered with a damp paper towel for 2-3 minutes.

🚨Leftover Alert

1. Breakfast Fried Rice is my absolute favorite! Just heat the rice up and throw a fried egg on top!