Pork fried rice is truly an all-rounder dish that works as an easy weeknight meal a soul-warming comfort food and a handy way to use up any leftovers you might have lying around. With a base of simple ingredients pork fried rice is not only effortless to throw together but also inherently customizable to your own tastes. Whether you want to give your fried rice an extra savory kick with a dollop of fish sauce or add mirin for an easy but effective upgrade sauce is certainly one way to customize your dish. But have you ever considered how you could switch up the pork in your pork fried rice for a delicious twist on this classic meal?
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This fried rice recipe might just be your new favorite fried rice! Plus a NEW ingredient!
While regular pork like pork chops is a perfectly legitimate choice when it comes to pork fried rice adding bacon instead can be a real game changer for this dish. You already know that bacon seems to taste good on everything so this isn’t that much of a controversial opinion. But when you think about it the idea of using bacon in your fried rice makes a lot of sense aside from the fact that it’s already delicious.
Bacon is a near-perfect tool to use in your fried rice as it expertly complements many of the flavors already present in the dish. This isn’t revolutionary of course as bacon still fills the role previously occupied by regular pork — both of which give you a meaty bite and plenty of umami flavor when mixed into the rice. But since bacon is brined and often has other spices and flavor compounds added to it it brings a layer of complexity to your fried rice that plain old pork strips simply can’t.
It’s no secret that bacon is quite salty but this works to your advantage in a fried rice where the flavor of the bacon is enhanced by soy sauce or fish sauce taking the taste to the next level. Bacon also works well with spicy ingredients as you may know if you’ve paired bacon with chili oil so you don’t have to worry about conflicts when adding ingredients like chili peppers or sambal oelek. In fact they probably work really well together. So fry up some bacon and use it in a next-level fried rice. You can also check out the best way to cook bacon which also happens to be the easiest so you can enjoy your fried rice experience even more!
