Shrimp Fried Rice

Shrimp Fried Rice with plenty of vegetables…

Ingredients

• 2 cups cooked rice
• 2 eggs
• 12-18 large shrimp, cleaned, tails off, (sliced in half), save a few whole for garnish, optional
• 1/3 cup frozen peas
• 1/3 cup diced frozen carrots
• 1/2 cup frozen green beans
• 2 tablespoons real bacon bits, optional
• 2 green onions sliced, separate white and green
• 2 tablespoons garlic infused olive oil (or regular olive oil)
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 3 tablespoons low sodium soy sauce
• salt and pepper to taste

Directions

• Add olive oil to a large skillet, turn heat on medium high.

• When hot add cooked white rice and stir around skillet with a wooden spoon or paddle.

• Add sliced white onions, carrots and peas, green beans let cook for a few minutes, keep stirring.

• Push aside rice mixture to one side of skillet, add butter in skillet, allow to melt.

• Crack eggs in skillet on cleared side, break yolks and scrambled until cooked hard, mix in with rice.

• Add and stir in cut up shrimp pieces, and whole shrimp keep mixing everything with wooden spoon. Cook until shrimp turn pink all the way through.

• Sprinkle and mix in soy sauce and green onions.

• Fry for a couple more minutes to incorporate the soy sauce and all the flavors into the fried rice.

• Turn off heat and serve. Place a couple of the whole shrimp on each serving for garnish.

• Serves about 2-3.

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