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Nasi Goreng with beef served with fried egg
Savoury Indonesian fried rice with beef strips, topped with a fried egg and fresh cucumber

Beef nasi goreng (Indonesian fried rice)

Author: Flavelo
Recipes Main Courses Quick Meals
The secret to Indonesian 'fried rice' is Kecap Manis (sweet soy sauce) and terasi (shrimp paste) or fish sauce umami bomb. But the most important rule: It can ONLY be made with cold, day-old rice! Fresh rice turns to mush in the pan, whilst cold rice stays separate and caramelises.
🕒 Prep Time 15 mins
🍳 Cook Time 10 mins
⌛ Total Time 25 mins
🍽️ Servings 4 servings
🔥 Calories 610 kcal
🌍 Cuisine Indonesian

Ingredients

Equipment Needed

  • Wok or large frying pan
  • Spatula

Allergen Information

⚠️ Soya
⚠️ Eggs
⚠️ Fish (if fish sauce used)
⚠️ Cereals containing gluten (in soy sauce)
⚠️ Crustaceans (if shrimp paste used)

Instructions

1 ✓

Break up the cold rice with your hands so there are no clumps.

Tip: The inside of clumpy rice won't fry, it just warms up.
2 ✓

Heat oil in the wok until smoking. Toss in the beef strips, fry for 1 minute, then remove.

Tip: Wok hei (breath of the wok) flavour requires high heat.
3 ✓

In the same oil fry the onion, garlic and chilli. Push to the side, crack in the eggs, and scramble them.

Tip: No need to fry the egg separately, everything fits in the wok.
4 ✓

Add the rice. From this point stir and shake continuously! Pour over the soy sauces.

Tip: The soy sauce caramelises on the rice grains.
5 ✓

Return the meat, toss together until everything is piping hot. Sprinkle with spring onions.

Tip: Don't let it sit in the wok or it will get soft.
6 ✓

Serve topped with a fried egg (optional extra) and cucumber.

Tip: Fresh cucumber cools the chilli, oily rice.

Recipe FAQ

The rice stuck together.
The rice was too fresh or too wet. Cook it the day before and put it in the fridge uncovered.
I don't have Kecap Manis.
Substitute with a 1:1 mixture of soy sauce and brown sugar.

Ingredients

  • 600 g Cooked rice (Jasmine, DAY OLD, cold!)
  • 300 g Beef (fillet or sirloin, cut into thin strips)
  • 2 tbsp Kecap Manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) or plain soy sauce + sugar
  • 1 tbsp Fish sauce (or shrimp paste)
  • 1 unit Onion (sliced)
  • 2 cloves Garlic (crushed)
  • 1 unit Chilli pepper (to taste)
  • 2 units Eggs
  • 3 tbsp Oil
  • 2 stalks Spring onions