Pulled Pork/Carnitas Fried Rice

This Pulled Pork/Carnitas Fried Rice is such a flavorful and delicious meal. This is a remix of Chinese cuisine with Mexican cuisine. Pulled pork is Mexican while fried rice is Chinese.

Whenever I have leftover brown rice, my go to next meal is normally revamping it to fried rice. To top it up with some left over pulled pork/carnitas! Boom! I make some pulled pork fried rice. It is so quick and easy to have this meal as long as you have cooked pulled pork & cooked rice. You can actually swap brown rice with white rice though i always swear by brown rice just because it’s more nutritious.

I have revamped brown rice before in the following recipes which you can quickly have a look at.

• Mushroom fried brown rice
• Stir fried vegetable brown rice

I also have videos on my Instagram page on how to make them.

You can also add other ingredients such as carrots or peas to make it your own. Another great alternative to pulled pork is left over fried pork. It would definitely bring another dimension to this fried rice.

I have a detailed recipe on how to make the best slow cooked pulled pork/carnitas, here.

Preparation and cooking:

Always start by laying down your ingredients: Chop the chives, dice the onions and measure out the pulled pork, rice, oil and soy sauce.

There is no stir fry without soy sauce!

Heat up a large non stick pan/wok on medium heat. Add in the cooking oil and onions. Mix well and allow to cook for about a minute or until the onions are translucent.

Add in the pulled pork/carnitas. Mix it well and cook for a minute or two.

Add the cooked brown rice and soy sauce then stir well to combine. Allow to cook for another 3- 4 minutes then turn off the heat.

Add in the chives, fluff and serve hot.

Gwen Jikoni

Pulled Pork/Carnitas Fried Brown Rice

This Pulled Pork/Carnitas Fried Brown Rice is a quick meal whenever you have some left over pulled pork and rice in the fridge. It basically takes 15 minutes or less. Very flavorful and delicious.

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Prep Time 5 minutes mins

Cook Time 10 minutes mins

Total Time 15 minutes mins

Servings: 4 people

Course: Main Course, Pork, Rice

Cuisine: Chinese, Mexican

Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 3 tbsp cooking oil*
• 1 large onion**
• 250 g pulled pork/carnitas
• 2 cups cooked brown rice***
• 2 tbsp light soy sauce****
• 1 bunch chives******

Method

 

1. Heat up a large non stick pan/wok on medium heat. Add in the cooking oil and onions. Mix well and allow to cook for about a minute or until the onions are translucent.
2. Add in the pulled pork/carnitas. Mix it well and cook for a minute or two.
3. Add the cooked brown rice and soy sauce then stir well to combine. Allow to cook for another 3- 4 minutes then turn off the heat.
4. Add in the chives, fluff and serve hot.

Notes

*Feel free to use any type of cooking oil you have on hand. Be it olive, coconut, canola etc.

**You can use any onion of choice. Red onion and green onions are most flavourful with this fried rice.

***You can substitute brown rice with white rice but I guarantee you brown tastes better and it’s the healthier option.

****I prefer the light soy sauce to dark soy sauce with this recipe. Feel free to even try the mushroom soy sauce or even tamari if you are on a gluten free diet.

*****You can substitute chives with cilantro (dania) or parsley. Choose your garnish!

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