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Chicken fried rice on Blackstone griddle

Learn to use a Blackstone griddle to make homemade Hibachi-style chicken fried rice. This delicious fried rice recipe is loaded with vegetables of your choice, scrambled eggs, and marinated chicken. You can make delicious fried rice right in your own backyard.
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Prep Time: 45 minutes
Cook Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Japanese
Keyword: fried rice, hibachi
Servings: 6 servings
Calories: 468kcal
Author: James Strange

Ingredients

Chicken marinade

  • 1.3 pounds Chicken thigh
  • 1 Tablespoon Sake
  • 1 Tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Water
  • 1 pinch White pepper
  • 1 clove garlic Fine minced
  • 2 each Green onion
  • 1/2 teaspoon Corn starch

Rice

  • 2 cup rice Short grain Calrose
  • 2 cups water
  • 4 Tablespoons Butter

Veggies

  • 1 each Zucchini
  • 6 each cremini mushrooms
  • 1/4 each onion small
  • 2 Tabelspoons Carrot fine minced

Rice Seasoning

  • 2 Tablespoons Oyster sauce
  • 1/2 Tablespoon Soy Sauce
  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame oil

Eggs

  • 4 each eggs
  • 1 Tablespoon Butter

Garnish

  • 1/2 teaspoon sesame seeds

Oil

Instructions

Prepare rice (day before)

  • Rinse the rice then let it soak for 20 to 30 minutes.
  • Drain the rice and add to Instant Pot. Manual cook for 2 minutes. Natural release for 10 minutes.
  • Remove rice from Instant Pot and let cool for one hour.
  • Place rice into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Stor in the fridge overnight.
  • Shortly before cooking use your hands to break the rice into small clumps.

Chicken marinade

  • To the diced-up chicken add rice wine, soy sauce, salt, water, white pepper, garlic, and green onion. Give it a good mix.
  • Add the corn starch and give it a good mix, ensure no white specks of corn starch are remaining.

Prepare veggies

  • Chop up the veggies into small pieces.

Cooking

  • Preheat the Blackstone griddle and arrange all of the ingredients close by.
  • Add a thin layer of oil to the cooktop then add the rice to one area. The veggies (reserving the squash) in one area and the chicken in another area. Make sure everything is spread out for faster cooking.
  • After about two minutes flip everything over and cook for another two minutes.
  • Add the squash to the grill.
  • To the rice add 4 Tablespoons butter, soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Mix the seasoning and butter into the rice.
  • Mix everything together and move to allow room to cook the eggs.
  • To a clean area of the griddle add oil and 1 Tablespoon of butter. Add the eggs and scramble them.
  • After the eggs are cooked add them to the fried rice and combine.
  • Turn off the burners and drizzle sesame oil onto the rice. Mix it in and garnish with sesame seeds and green onion.
  • You are ready to serve.

Nutrition

Calories: 468kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 18g | Fat: 20g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 0.4g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Sodium: 552mg | Potassium: 224mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 0.2g | Vitamin A: 448IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 36mg | Iron: 1mg
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