A week of easy lunches: Day 7

Live Well for Less

VCC chef Hamid Salimian presents a week of lunches that are easy, tasty and inexpensive. Here is the final recipe in our series, where our chef serves up some homemade fried rice.

Ingredients:

• 150 grams of ground meat
• 1 tbsp. ginger
• ¼ cup onion
• 1 tsp. garlic sliced
• 2 tbsp. Hoisin sauce
• Leftover rice
• Scrambled eggs left over from breakfast
• 6 Shiitake mushrooms
• ¼ cup cilantro
• ½ Serrano chili, sliced
• Dried chili
• Vegetable oil
• Sesame seed oil

Steps: Making the stir fry

• Make sure pan is nice and hot. Coat the pan with oil, but make sure not to use too much.
• Caramelize onions once the oil is heated.
• Add mushrooms and eggs. Crisp up the rice for several minutes in the pan. Add chilis, Hoisin and meat. Serve topped with freshly cut cilantro.