How to cook Nigerian Fried Rice with coated chicken

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NIGERIAN FRIED RICE RECIPE

NIGERIAN FRIED RICE RECIPE
How to cook Nigerian Fried Rice with coated chicken
 A serving of Nigerian Fried Rice.

How to cook Nigerian fried rice 

This is simple, affordable and easy to cook Nigerian fried rice recipe, cooked with simple ingredients that are easy to find anywhere in markets or shops.

In Nigeria, Fried Rice is the meal for great events like weddings, Festivals, Christmas celebrations, House-warming, New Car Washing, Child Naming Ceremonies, Child Christening/ Dedications, and even Funeral Commemorations. It is much loved by Most Nigerians.

Fried rice innovations over time

Back in the days, not many women knew how to cook fried rice. All we did was cook our
“Rice and Nigerian tomato stew” or “Jollof rice” at home, and eat out whenever we craved fried rice. In food outlets, fried rice is the most expensive of all rice meals on the Menu. Well, this is considering that I have never bought sushi.


Fried rice is loved by many. Children grin all through the cooking and never leave the kitchen anytime a mother announces that lunch is fried rice. With all the colorful vegetables in there, I am forced to think that fried rice is the most healthy of all rice meals.

 

Different methods of cooking Nigerian fried rice

There are other “methods of Cooking Fried Rice.” There is the
method where all the vegetables are added to the pot of rice and cooked before frying. There is also a method whereby the rice and vegetables are fried together while mixing.

There is another method I call lazy man fried rice, that’s the method below. Here the vegetables are stir fried and added to already cooked rice without frying again.

One thing is common with all these methods of cooking fried rice; The taste and aroma is the same. The methods of “cooking fried rice” may vary, but the taste remains that unique Nigerian fried rice taste.

HOW TO COAT Fried CHICKEN WITH BREAD CRUMBS

Coated chicken
Fried chicken coated with bread crumbs.
To see how I coat chicken with bread crumbs, GO HERE
Salted Boiled chicken coated with BREAD CRUMBS, waiting to be fried

TO SEE HOW CHICKEN IS COATED WITH BREAD CRUMBS, GO HERE

Ingredients for This Nigerian fried rice Sauce:

This quantity for a large family of 10.


1. 1 small cabbage
2. 4 green peppers
3. 1 large red bell pepper (Optional)
4. 3 cups diced carrots
5. 1 can sweet corn ( Optional cuz I sometimes prefer my fried rice without sweet corn)
6. 1 cup green peas
7. 1 medium sized red onion
8. Red Kidney Beans (Very very Optional)
9. 2 cups boiled and diced gizzards or cow liver
10. 3 Seasoning cubes or to your taste
11. 3 cups vegetable oil to stir fry. (I used soya oil) You can add more if needed.
12. 1 tablespoon curry powder. (You can add more)
13. Half a tablespoon turmeric. (You can add more if you want)
14. Salt to taste

Ingredients For Boiling This curried Rice:

 

5 cups rice
3 Teaspoons curry powder
1 teaspoon turmeric or enough to change the color of the rice to your desired taste.
Chicken stock just enough to cover the rice, you can add more if pot dries up too quickly.
water to wash rice before cooking.
2 seasoning cubes or to your taste
Salt to taste.

Cooking Procedure For Boiling This fried Rice before mixing with stir fried vegetables:

Here is our fried rice cooking steps

Boil chicken with onion, seasoning cube and some water till done.
Use the chicken stock from the chicken, curry and turmeric to boil the rice on the stove while the chicken is being coated and fried by the side.
Chop and dice your vegetables and stir fry in oil with seasoning cubes. (Sometimes I stir fry with more oil when I need the extra ‘sauce oil’ for another dish).
Mix the Stir fried vegetables with the cooked rice in batches and serve with coated chicken or beef. OR if you do not want this lazy man method, you can fry the cooked rice in batches with the vegetables before serving.
The pictures below should make it clearer for you. Happy cooking with our Nigerian fried rice recipe.

Stir frying vegetables in oil with some seasoning before mixing with the cooked curried rice.
This was on my girls’ Visiting Day at School.

The young ladies asked that we come with soft but crunchy fried rice. What? soft and crunchy together? How is that?

Thank God, I just came up with, OK, soft rice mixed with all the crunchies like much cabbage, carrots and sweet corn. That was how I cooked the rice very soft, and made sure that cabbage was much.

What was the score from the students? a whopping 110%.

INGREDIENTS FOR COATING THE STEAMED CHICKEN:

Bread crumbs OR All Purpose Flour
4 Eggs or more
Oil for deep frying.

Cooking Steps for coating and making fried chicken

 

 

58 thoughts on “How to cook Nigerian Fried Rice with coated chicken”

  1. Mama mia, how can I resist you??? Nigeria sure has great healthy, irresistible munchies.
    This is self explanatory. Can I cook this for my family?

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  2. Oh Sis Eya, I must delete d image of this fried rice from my memory or I'll dream of it the whole day.lol. You remind me of my secondary school visiting days but it was white rice n stew or jellof rice and chicken then. I'm sure your girls ate n cleared all d contents of the 2 coolers, nothing can b compared to mummies cooking. Lizzy

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  3. Av been seen ur advert on linda Ikeji blog, I took tyme out to see wat u ve been talkin abt, meen am so so not disappointed. Good work. Kaffy.

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  5. This is yummy but Eya I think u take too much seasong; 6cubes of knorr is much for 3cups of rice; sure I won't use more dn 1knorr cube and it wl stll come out nice; if I use 1wrap(I.e 2cubes) to boil my chicken n I'm using d stock 2cook d rice; dn jst 1cube will be ok for 3cups of rice; I learnt too much seasong(maggi n d rest) aint dt gud for d body, Mrs AJ

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    • Thanks Mrs AJ, you forgot about seasoning for the stir fried vegetables. They need more seasoning than even the chicken stock. The vegetables are almost tasteless without enough seasoning.

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  6. Yes Mrs Aj, when I cook jollof or Fried rice. I use more seasoning cubes than usual. But this one was too much. I had to fry the vegetables with no seasoning to help balance the taste. Thanks too for drawing my attention to the number. I used two wraps of double Knorr cubes, that should be four and not six. I will correct it now. Six will just turn the pot into a salt lake.
    Thanks.

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  7. Madam cook it 1st then u'll know hw much seasoning u need in fried rice,cos once u add d veggies u need more seasoning to bring out d taste! Or else u r going to av a very tasteless fried rice!

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  10. Please Eya I didn't understand how u coated the chicken. Did u dip it in vegetable oil first nd then into d eggs before d flour.
    Thanx
    Olamide

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  14. Ok. Thanx for the clarification. Will try on sunday by God's grace. Pls where do u buy the chicken you use cos they always look so juicy and scrumptious and the chicken I buy usually doesn' look like this. I live in Abuja.
    Thank U

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  15. I buy chicken from PARK n SHOP at BANEX Area. Sometimes I buy from the market too. Remember to ask for soft chicken.
    There are times I buy Orobo chicken from the market.

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  16. Nice blog, but I think you can arrange it from steps on how to make the chicken to steps on how to make the rice, I'm really trying to follow up. But the ill order of things is confusing

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  24. hi eya,pls i have a little here,when i stir fry my vegetable,it ends up getting burnt and its always stil very hard. it doesnt get soft. please what cn i do. pls help a sister

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  29. i just stumbled on this page and I'm glad i did. i learnt something new. chicken can be crispy:) thanks once again.
    Evelyn.

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  32. This fried rice partern is perfect too… I use the Spartan style to cook mine… my eatry is Just one month few days now… I am still looking for a cook… an understanding one wey no go quarrell me… 080 3877 244 8… in Port Harcourt. Alakahia, East- West road, Port Hacourt.

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  34. Aunty Eya, I like the polite way you respond to your readers even the rude ones, may God continue to give you wisdom and patience. Amen

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