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Prep time
half-hour -
Cook time for supper
1 hour 10 minutes -
Serves
4
Creator Notes
Chicken fried rice, emphasis on the hen. By starting with hen thighs—crisped slow in a skillet, Canal House–fashion—you compose a surplus of golden, flavorful schmaltz. Here is what we’ll employ as a substitute of a fair-flavored oil to hasten-fry ginger and garlic, onion and scallion, carrots and peas. The final outcome is a standout fried rice that’s chickeny even forward of the hen thighs gather nestled on high. A pair of notes relating to the execution: Utilizing refrigerated rice no longer easiest streamlines day-of cooking, however additionally sidesteps moist, mushy fried rice. Scrambling the eggs in a separate skillet ensures fluffy, definite curds (versus egg-coated fried rice—no thanks). And in give an explanation for so that you just can preserve the hen thighs sizzling in a low-temp oven when you’re cooking the fried rice, in spite of every thing feel free, however I prefer the ease of letting them relaxation on the easy-warm range. Here is extensive with a in spite of every thing chilly, very hoppy beer. —Emma Laperruque
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Test Kitchen-Approved
Formula
1 tablespoon
canola oil
4
bone-in, skin-on hen thighs
1 pinch
kosher salt, plus more as wished
1 pinch
freshly ground unlit pepper, plus more as wished
1 tablespoon
Microplaned (or very finely grated) original ginger
2
expansive garlic cloves, Microplaned or minced
1/2
expansive yellow onion, finely diced
1 bunch
scallions, finely chopped
2
medium carrots, peeled and finely diced
1/2 cup
frozen peas
2 cups
cooked white or brown rice, immediate- or medium-grain, chilly
1 tablespoon
soy sauce, plus more to style
1 tablespoon
unsalted butter (more canola oil works, too)
4
expansive eggs
Directions
- Add the oil to a expansive, heavy skillet, ideally solid-iron. Region over medium warmth. Season the hen thighs all over with salt and pepper. Add them to the skillet, skin side-down. Cook dinner without transferring except the fleshy has rendered and the skin is extensive golden brown and crispy, 15 to half-hour. Regulate the warmth as wished, reducing to medium-low if the skin begins to burn forward of it will get evenly brown. Turn the thighs over and continue cooking except the opposite side is browned and the meat closest to the bone is cooked thru, 15 to twenty minutes. When the hen is completed, transfer it to a plate, and pour the rendered fleshy trusty into a heatproof glass or bowl. Go the warmth below the skillet on.
- Add 1 tablespoon hen fleshy to the pan, then the ginger and garlic. Plug-fry for 1 minute except very fragrant. Add one other 1 ½ tablespoons fleshy, alongside with the onion, scallion, carrot, and a extensive pinch of salt. Plug to combine, then quilt the pan. Cook dinner coated for 5 minutes, stirring halfway thru. Say the pan and prepare dinner for one other 3 minutes or so, except the vegetables are largely soft. Add the peas and hasten-fry to thaw and prepare dinner, about 2 minutes. Add the rice, soy sauce, and pretty of more hen fleshy (or all of it!). Season to style with salt, pepper, and more soy sauce. Turn the warmth the whole method down to low when you prepare dinner the eggs in a separate pan.
- Add the butter or oil to a nonstick skillet and placement on the diversity over medium warmth. Crack the eggs trusty into a bowl, season with a pinch every of salt and pepper, and beat with a fork except easy. When the butter has melted and is starting to foam, pour within the eggs. They might perhaps well additionally fair easy sizzle. Cook dinner, stirring slowly however continuously, except the eggs are pretty location—this might perhaps well additionally fair easy easiest take a minute or so. Add the eggs to the rice and gently hasten to incorporate so they’re evenly allotted in extensive objects.
- Nestle the hen thighs on high of the fried rice and relieve sizzling.
Emma became the food editor at Food52. She created the award-winning column, Sizable Little Recipes, and grew to become it trusty into a cookbook in 2021. At the 2nd, she’s a senior editor at Bon Appétit, leading digital cooking protection. Advise hi there on Instagram at @emmalaperruque.
