Chicken Fried Rice – An Actifry is not just for Chips

Like many people I bought the Tefal Actifry on the promise of Chips with just a teaspoon of oil, and I have to say it did not disappoint.

I started off following the instructions part cook the potatoes, pat them dry and left them dry out before you put them in. Well that was far, so after what 3 years maybe now, I just wash the spud, and cut it up, I don’t even take the skin off anymore, it just ain’t worth messing around. Then put them in raw for 30 mins, and generally they are pretty good.

It was a while really before I thought what else could I do in this thing, it sits there waiting for chip night! So it was time to hit the internet.

Where do you turn when you want a recipe, Google is most peoples number one, however don’t rule out Pinterest. It is a great way to visually browse crowdsourced content, and in this case recipes. The first thing I found was chicken wings, and I they are awesome. You don’t need to do anything to them, Buy them, cut them, drop them in, no oil and 20 mins you have great chicken wings. That was it for a while, but I went back to Pinterest and then found this little gem, Chicken Fried Rice.

It is just so simple and for me being on WW, the points are as low as I want, I just adjust the rice to fit what I have available, this is what 10sp looks like.

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As with all my recipes I make them my own. Therefore I don’t always use carrot, but you can see from the picture I have added bell peppers. I also removed the hoisin sauce (high in WW points) and I use combination of Chinese five spice and ground ginger as they have zero points! If you have an actifry give it a go and let me know what you think.

Chicken Fried Rice

Serves: 2
Prep Time: 10min
Cook Time: 15min

Ingredients:

• 1 Tbsp sesame oil
• ½ Onion
• 2 Cloves garlic
• 1 Chicken breast in chunks
• 120g Cooked rice
• 40g Peas
• 1 Carrot grated
• 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
• 1 Tbsp Hoisin sauce
• 2 Spring onions
• Salt and pepper

Steps:

1. Pour the oil into the actifry and cook for 2 minutes.
2. Add the garlic, ginger and chicken breast. Set the actifry for 6 minutes.
3. Add the rice and cook for a further 3 minutes.
4. Pour in the peas, grated carrot and add the soya sauce and hoisin sauce and cook for a further 2 minutes.
5. Season with salt and pepper and serve with the sliced spring onions.

What recipes do you do in the actifry? Share some with me, I might try adding them.