Alma Kerby's Quick & Easy Chinese Fried Rice

Alma Ontiveros Kerby

Ingredients:
4 cups cooked, day-old, *white rice
(must be at least one day old so it isn't too sticky)
1 tsp peanut or sesame seed oil (for flavor)
1/3 c. soy sauce
4 slices deli ham (I like honey ham), chopped
2 to 3 cups of frozen veggie mix
(the kind with the peas, corn, carrots, & green beans or you can always use fresh veggies. I like celery, onion, pea pods, green peppers, carrots.)
2 eggs, whisked
1/4 c. chopped onion
1-2 TB cooking oil

Directions:

1. On high heat, preheat cooking oil and saute onion until lightly fried. Add ham and frozen veggies, mix well. Saute until cooked (I like the edges lightly browned.)
2. Push everything to one side of the pan, making room to fry the eggs. Add a tad more cooking oil and scramble the eggs in the empty side of the pan.
3. Once the eggs are cooked, mix them with the veggies then add the rice. Add soy sauce and blend thoroughly.
4. Add peanut or sesame seed oil and continue cooking while turning and mixing well. Add more cooking oil if rice begins to stick to pan.

*To make white rice: 2 cups rice, 4 cups water, 2 TB butter. Put all ingredients in pot and set heat to medium/medium-high and bring to a light boil. Reduce heat to low (a 3 on a scale of 1-10) and simmer for 20 minutes, covered and undisturbed. Immediately remove pot from heat and leave covered and undisturbed for another 15-20 minutes.