Easy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

I made this Easy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe as easy dinner recipe, but it's also a great easy side dish for a family dinner!

This is my attempt to recreate the Benihana Chicken Fried Rice Recipe that I've always loved so much! Our easy Chicken Fried Rice is full of yummy stuff like chicken breast, whole grain rice, veggies and a flavorful sauce that's light but still lends a great flavor profile.

Let's Make Easy Chicken Fried Rice!

This Easy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe really is a great dish to make ahead and is pretty easy to store!

I immediately put some of this easy Chicken Fried Rice into freezer ziplock bags and threw them into the freezer. That is my top tip if you have a small family and aren't the kind of person who will eat leftovers until they're done.

Are you looking for more easy side dish recipes like our Easy Chicken Fried Rice?

We make all kinds of side dish and casserole recipes, like these tasty Buttery Dill Potatoes!

How to make Chicken Fried Rice

Ingredients

• 2 cups water
• 1 cup extra long grain brown rice
• 3 Tbsp. reduced sodium lite soy sauce
• ¼ tsp. Thai Style Chili Sauce
• 1 Tbsp. sesame oil
• ½ lb. boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cut into ½-inch pieces
• ½ cup finely chopped red bell pepper
• ¼ cup finely chopped green onion
• ¾ cup frozen peas, thawed
• 1 cup egg whites

Instructions

First rinse your rice! Then bring water and rice to a boil in 2-quart saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Cover saucepan with a tight fitting lid. Cook rice over low heat for 35 minutes, or until rice is tender.

OR you can use a rice cooker and cook according to directions.

Meanwhile, in small bowl stir together soy sauce and chili sauce; set aside.

Heat oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken. Cook chicken, stirring occasionally, until chicken is no longer pink. This SHOULD take about 5-7 minutes, as we cut the chicken into ½ inch pieces.

Add red bell pepper and green onion. Cook, stirring constantly, for 3 to 4 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.

Now you are going to add into the pan your cooked rice and the thawed peas. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for about 3 minutes.

Now reduce the heat to low and stir in your soy sauce mixture. With a spoon, push the rice mixture to the sides of skillet, making a well for the egg whites.

Pour egg whites into this well in the the center of your skillet.

As the egg starts to set, use a spatula to slowly stir the egg whites until eggs are set.

One the eggs are set, stir the entire mixture around so that the eggs blend evenly with the rice, chicken and veggies.

Variations and Substitutions

Shrimp and chicken fried rice - You can very easily make this a shrimp and chicken fried rice recipe by adding ½ cup of cooked shrimp!

Quick cooking rice - Using leftover cooked brown or white rice cuts your cooking time down quite a bit. We've given the instructions for cooking long grain brown rice, but if you are using a different kind, just follow the directions on the package!

Chili sauce - You can use a chili sauce, like a Thai-style chili sauce or something else, maybe a chili Garlic sauce! It will give it a little extra zing!

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Easy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe

Jennifer

I made this Easy Chicken Fried Rice Recipe as easy dinner recipe, but it's also a great easy side dish for a family dinner!

4.58 from 7 votes

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 55 minutes mins

Course Dinner, Entree, Main, Main Course, Side Dish

Cuisine Chinese, Japanese, Thai

Servings 4 servings

Calories 767 kcal

Ingredients

  

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• 2 cups water
• 1 cup long grain brown rice
• 3 Tbsp. lite soy sauce reduced sodium, lite soy sauce
• ¼ tsp. chili sauce I used Kikkoman Thai Style Chili Sauce
• 1 Tbsp. sesame oil
• ½ lb. chicken boneless skinless chicken breast halves, cut into ½-inch pieces
• ½ cup red bell pepper finely chopped
• ¼ cup green onion finely chopped
• ¾ cup peas frozen, thawed
• 1 cup egg whites I used 8 oz. AllWhites® egg whites

Instructions

 

• First rinse your rice! Then bring water and rice to a boil in 2-quart saucepan. Reduce heat to low. Cover saucepan with a tight fitting lid. Cook rice over low heat for 35 minutes, or until rice is tender.
• OR you can use a rice cooker and cook according to directions.
• Meanwhile, in small bowl stir together soy sauce and chili sauce and set it aside.
• Heat oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chicken. Cook chicken, stirring occasionally, until chicken is no longer pink. This SHOULD take about 5-7 minutes, as we cut the chicken into ½ inch pieces.
• Add red bell pepper and green onion. Cook, stirring constantly, for 3 to 4 minutes or until the vegetables are tender.
• Now you are going to add into the pan your cooked rice and the thawed peas. Continue to cook, stirring constantly, for about 3 minutes.
• Now reduce the heat to low and stir in your soy sauce mixture. With a spoon, push the rice mixture to the sides of skillet, making a well for the egg whites.
• Pour egg whites into this well in the the center of your skillet.
• As the egg starts to set, use a spatula to slowly stir the egg whites until eggs are set.
• One the eggs are set, stir the entire mixture around so that the eggs blend evenly with the rice, chicken and veggies.

Nutrition

Serving: 1gCalories: 767kcalCarbohydrates: 41gProtein: 12gFat: 61gSaturated Fat: 18gPolyunsaturated Fat: 13gMonounsaturated Fat: 27gCholesterol: 48mgSodium: 186mgPotassium: 223mgFiber: 3gSugar: 3gVitamin A: 856IUVitamin C: 36mgCalcium: 20mgIron: 1mg

Keyword Chicken, fried rice, side dish

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Please note that I originally wrote this recipe post in 2015, as part of a sponsored campaign for AllWhites egg whites.

Over the years, I have made it again and changed the ingredients a little, and the current post you see is updated as of the recipe I have been making as of 2023.