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today Albert has challenged me to a fried rice cook-off we're each going to give it our best shot but there can only be one winner good luck Albert the ironic key to a good fried rice is you have your leftover day old rice as I've got right here but on top of that you want nice fresh ingredients we got our green onions our beautiful shallot so first thing first is some simple knife work we've got to prep our shallot and make sure we get the best knife Cuts possible this is basically going to be the base of our fried rice and if I'm gonna beat Albert this one needs to be good thank you all right I'm gonna set my shells off to the side next up I have some nice red chilies which are not only going to give
some color but also of course some nice spicy flavor in my fried rice not too long ago I was given the uncle Title by Uncle Roger himself and when it comes to something like fried rice he's publicly stated that I am one of the only people he trusts with making it so yes I feel pretty confident that I'm gonna win last step I'm gonna go ahead and chop a few green onions here these aren't going to be added to the end of making my fried rice but I want to prep all my ingredients out now and we're ready to cook first up we are going to go into our Wok with some peanut oil and we're gonna get this nice and hot and once this is set and I go with my shallots and a spoonful of minced garlic and then we begin to stir it all up
once this has become nice and aromatic we'll go ahead and crack in one or two small eggs this we want to get nice and fluffy Uncle Roger's main rule of thumb for making the best fried rice is to trust your gut you don't measure out your ingredients as long as you're using the proper ingredients it all comes from here and with that being said time for our rice foreign now the key to adding in soy sauce which is going to give our fried rice that salt that it needs is pouring it down the side of the wok onto that really hot Edge and it should get nice and bubbly as it goes in I'm also going to go ahead and add just a light touch of sesame oil but not too much because it can get overpowering and then I'll go ahead and
grind up some of my own white peppercorns which will give our fried rice incredible flavor we don't need any salt in this dish only white pepper the soy sauce will give us all the salt we need and it goes foreign speaking of Uncle Roger my favorite thing in my kitchen my MSG is Spencer Amazon is cheating I've got a nice sprinkle of MSG and he's trying to keep that Uncle title I'm proud of that title I am proud to say that I'm one of the few people Uncle Roger trusts with making fried rice and to finish things off my green onion and chilies basically everything I've seen Albert do is inside it's right it's incorrect even down to the pepper he just I'm done I'm done already seven minutes huh I waited for you in the middle
the veggies peas and carrots that's an Americanized fried rice quick little taste and that is a beautiful fried rice that's about to take albertac he's naughty we're gonna play it in a very cliche but fun way filling it into this mold then packing it all in just a bit and then upside down onto my plate and this here is my fried rice I'll finish it with an egg yolk on the top and I'm done it's raw it's not even cooked it's raw I definitely think that ketchup secures my win the second you add ketchup to fried rice you've done something wrong well I called up Uncle Roger to see if he'd come judge these but he didn't answer so I got the next best thing hey what's up guys oh I like fried rice I really don't have
any hope for both of these dishes okay right off the bat I love the way this looks and in the words of Uncle Roger hiya what is that like what is did he just put ketchup on that who puts ketchup on fried rice anyways we'll figure that out later I'm gonna start with what I think looks good I'm really afraid of that egg yolk am I gonna get salmonella salmon how do you even say that word all right here goes nothing that's not bad it's lacking a little bit of the salt there are a few burnt pieces in here and he was on MasterChef coming from a Persian background I like a few pieces of nice crispy rice on my fried rice you know just I mean it tastes amazing it tastes really good I like the way the rice tastes you could use a
little more salt though or MSG now is it this masterpiece if that's what you call it that smells like ketchup I'm worried but let's just see how it tastes away I don't hated I thought I was gonna hate this one a lot but wow very impressive the salt level is perfect not enough crunch in the rice I would say it was a little more crunch the it looks like ham or spam it's a good it's a weird touch but it could work and the eggs are actually a lot better on this dish again ketchup is a little weird but it seems to be working to be honest with you I'll eat both of these both taste amazing but there can only be one winner if I'm at a restaurant I expect my dish to look like this and if I'm at
home I expect it to look like this so honestly I think I'm going to call it a draw guys both of you I'm really impressed fishes both tasted amazing so I give it a drop bye
