A Clone Of Benihanas Fried Rice Recipe - rice

Method

• Cook rice following instructions on package (Bring 2 c. water to a boil, add in rice and a dash of salt, reduce heat and simmer in covered saucepan for 20 min).
• Pour rice into a large bowl to let it cold in the refrigerator.
• Scramble the Large eggs in a small pan over medium heat.
• Separate thescrambled chunks of egg into small pea-size bits while cooking.
• When rice has cooled to near room temperature, add in peas, grated carrot, scrambled egg and diced onion to the bowl.
• Carefully toss all of the ingredients together.
• Heat 1 1/2 Tbsp.
• of butter in a large frying pan over medium/high heat.
• When butter has completely melted, dump the bowl of rice and other ingredients into the pan and add in soy sauce plus a dash of salt and pepper.
• Cook rice for 6-8 min over heat, stirring often.
• Serves 4.
• This fried rice can be prepared ahead of time by cooking the rice, then adding the peas, carrots and egg plus half of the soy sauce.
• Keep this refrigerated till you are ready to fry it in the butter.
• Which's when you add in the salt, pepper and remaining soy sauce.
• When 20-year-old Rocky Aoki came to the New York City from Japan with his wrestling team in 1959 he was convinced it was the land of opportunity.
• Just five years later he took $10,000 he had saved plus another $20,000 which he borrowed to open a Benihana steakhouse on the West side of Manhattan.
• His concept of bringing the chefs out from the back kitchen to prepare the food in front of customers on a specially designed hibachi grill was grnd breaking.
• The restaurant was such a smashing success which it paid for itself within six months.
• Here's a clone recipe for the fried rice at Banihana which is prepared by chefs with pre-cooked rice on those open hibachi grills.