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Vegetable Egg Fried Rice

Day-old rice fried hard with egg, frozen vegetables and soy sauce.

Vegetable Egg Fried Rice, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
25 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$10.80

Ingredients

  • 2 cup jasmine rice
  • 5 large eggs
  • 3 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 12 oz frozen mixed vegetables
  • 3 clove garlic
  • 1/2 oz fresh ginger root
  • 3 tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp toasted sesame oil
  • 1 bunch green onions / scallions

Method

  1. Cook the rice ahead and chill it, or use leftover rice. Cold rice is what keeps the grains separate.

  2. Beat the eggs and scramble them softly in 1 tbsp oil, then tip them out.

  3. Get the pan very hot with the remaining oil and fry the frozen vegetables 3 minutes.

  4. Add the garlic and grated ginger for 30 seconds, then add the cold rice and press it into the pan, letting it crisp between stirs.

  5. Pour the soy sauce around the edge of the pan, then return the eggs and toss.

  6. Finish off the heat with the sesame oil and sliced scallions.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 9 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United States$43.18$10.809 of 9 ingredients
United Kingdom£17.73£4.438 of 9 ingredients
Australia$39.84$9.968 of 9 ingredients
Canada$67.14$16.798 of 9 ingredients
New Zealand$38.79$9.707 of 9 ingredients
Greece19,64 €4,91 €7 of 9 ingredients
Mexico$560.36$140.097 of 9 ingredients
Egypt‏٥١٨٫٢٨ ج.م.‏*‏١٢٩٫٥٧ ج.م.‏6 of 9 ingredients
Austria€ 33,81*€ 8,456 of 9 ingredients
Germany18,95 €*4,74 €5 of 9 ingredients
Spain5,69 €*1,42 €4 of 9 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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