🇵🇪 How to Make Arroz Chaufa

Craving Arroz Chaufa? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Arroz Chaufa at home, in about 20 min, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 3 cups cold cooked rice, day-old
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 150g char siu pork or chicken, diced
• 4 spring onions, sliced
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• 1 tsp grated ginger

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Day-old rice, straight from the fridge. Fresh rice will steam into a paste — this is the one non-negotiable.
2. Scramble the eggs quickly in a hot oiled wok, then tip them out.
3. Sear the meat and pepper over the highest heat you have, 2 min.
4. Add the rice and press it against the wok, letting it sit before tossing. You want some grains to catch and toast.
5. Ginger, soy and sesame oil round the edge of the wok, not into the middle, so they caramelise as they run in.
6. Egg and spring onion back in, one last toss. Chaufa is Cantonese cooking with a Peruvian accent, and it should taste of wok smoke.