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This Breakfast Fried Rice is made using only 4 ingredients and is a super easy meal to whip up anytime of day, not just in the morning! It takes the base of leftover rice and switches up the traditional fried rice by adding in the leftover breakfast staples of bacon and eggs. You can have it on the table from start to finish in less than 15 minutes which makes it a breakfast (or dinner) win!
Breakfast Fried Rice
After testing and testing and testing our Best Rice Ever recipe a few weeks back we found ourselves with piles of rice in the test kitchen. Not that we are complaining or anything, because it really is the best rice ever, but we knew we needed to put that rice to good use by testing a few new leftover rice recipes, and this Breakfast Fried Rice was one of them!
We love the idea of being able to make a double batch of something easy, like rice, when you are cooking dinner and then also being able to use up the leftovers again for a fresh meal later in the week. This Breakfast Fried Rice is the perfect example of this. This dish takes a total start to finish time to make of 15 minutes! On busy days (which they seem to be innumerable) this is the perfect breakfast, or lunch or dinner! And likely you already have the ingredients on hand or in your freezer: bacon, eggs, rice and green onions.
What is in a Breakfast Fried Rice?
This is not the most traditional Asian-style type of fried rice, as we really wanted to keep the ingredient list as minimal as possible so there aren’t any add-ins like coconut aminos or other spices. Think of this as more of a breakfast stir fry! We wanted this to be a savory options for breakfast made with ingredients you likely had on hand that could be a satisfying meal. We limited it to bacon, eggs, green onions and leftover rice with optional hot sauce.
What are some other options to add to Breakfast Fried Rice?
If you wanted to add in a few more things there are plenty of options. You can add in:
- diced bell peppers (after you fry up the bacon)
- baby kale or spinach (add it when you add the rice and green onion to wilt)
- frozen baby peas (add it when you add the rice and green onion to wilt)
- cauliflower rice (add this after you fry up the bacon and cook for a bit before adding the eggs)
If you like this rice recipe, check out these others:
- How to Make the Best Rice Ever (Stove Top and Instant Pot)
- One Pot Turmeric Rice and Chicken
- Kimchi Fried Rice
- Turkey Wild Rice Soup
- Healthy Rice Pudding
- One Pan Salsa Verde Chicken and Rice
- Lemon Garlic Chicken and Rice Skillet
- Hawaiian Chicken over Coconut Rice
Breakfast Fried Rice
Ingredients
- 4 pieces bacon diced
- 3 eggs scrambled
- 2 cups cooked leftover rice
- 2 green onions sliced
- Hot sauce optional
Instructions
- In a nonstick skillet or well seasoned cast iron pan, cook bacon until crispy, about 6 minutes. Drain all but 1 tablespoon of bacon fat. Reserve leftover bacon fat for another use or discard.
- Lower heat to medium low and add scrambled eggs. Using a spatula move the eggs around the pan until they are fully cooked, about 2 minutes.
- Add rice and green onion and cook, breaking up the rice if needed with a spatula, until it is heated through about 3-5 minutes.
- Check the seasoning and adjust with additional salt and pepper if needed. Divide between two plates and garnish with hot sauce if using and serve immediately.
This sounds good! Do you have a “best rice recipe” on your site, or should the links on this page include the word “pilaf?”
Any leftover rice is great. We do have that one, coconut rice, and even sticky rice for sushi bowls/sushi!
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Amazing! I love fried rice. Thanks for this recipe.
What a creative way to use left over rice, great recipe!
Love what you do Lexis, now your doing rice breakfast a real good idea, Thanx Susan
I just made your receipe with a few changes chopped spinach from trader joes and add white onion instead of green onion. This turn into my sunday dinner in quarantine. Thanks for the inspiration.
We’ve made this twice in the past week because it’s that good! So simple and delicious! Thanks!
Thanks for a great recipe! I recently had breakfast fried rice for the first time at a restaurant, and was able to re-create it at home for my family using your recipe as the starting point!
I do like your idea of using cauliflower rice–that will definitely be my next attempt, as I try to eat low-carb whenever possible.
I think I will surprise my family some night with your “Best Rice Ever!” dish–it sounds like they’d love it, too!
Made this for dinner tonight and it was delicious! I made the rice yesterday and used bone broth in place of water. I also increased the recipe by half for our family of 3. Fun way to switch up “breakfast for dinner.” Will definitely add this into our menu planning ?
YUMMY!!!!! Thanks for sharing your recipe! I’ve heard about your blog a couple of times and will now spend my afternoon reading 🙂
For Step 2, are we starting with fresh eggs or reheating pre-scrambled eggs?
The “scrambled” refers to two raw eggs scrambled, as in whisked up.
Great flavors and delicious fried rice. Good to eat in breakfast. Thanks for sharing.
I like fried rice. Thanks for sharing this receipt. I like this. Its look so delicious. I will definitely this try.