A classic fried rice is an essential weekly dish in any home kitchen. Add perfectly seasoned shrimp along with tender steak and you have yourself the perfect meal. This recipe includes a mixture of carbs, veggies and protein topped off a special yum yum sauce you’ll be putting on everything.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
Bored of your regular old fried rice? Elevate it! Be prepared for this to be your new go to weekly dish. Fluffy rice seasoned with soy sauce, filled with protein is just what you needed.
Here are few reasons why this will become your favorite fried rice recipe:
Easy – This meal will be ready in just 20 min! Have everything prepared beforehand and throw everything in a pan/wok as you watch the meal come together.
Customizable – Fried rice is one of the most customizable meals in the world. You can easily substitute the proteins used in this recipe to whatever you have on hand and YES! That goes for vegetables too. This is a perfect time to clean out your fridge!
Delicious – Every bite of this meal is filled with flavor! The rice is seasoned to perfection because of the combo of soy and oyster sauce; the proteins have their own unique marinade; and the yum yum sauce is the perfect tangy topping for this rice.
Meal Prep – This the PERFECT meal prep! Carbs, protein and vegetables. It’s the perfect formula to hit your daily macros.
Key Ingredients You’ll Need
- Steak – The absolutely best cut to use for this meal is obviously a tender ribeye or filet. A more budget friendly option would be top sirloin. All in all, use a cut of meat that stays tender when cooked quickly on high heat.
- Shrimp – This is the easiest seafood to use in a stir fry like fried rice because it cooks in 1-2 minutes and stays tender.
- Rice – Use any grain of rice you prefer. I like long grain rice.
- Vegetables – Get creative! Clean out your fridge and throw in your favorite vegetables.
- Soy & Oyster Sauce – A combo of soy AND oyster sauce I feel is key to a well balanced fried rice, whether you add protein or not.
- Eggs – What fried rice is complete without eggs. Scramble is authentic but you can certainly add a fried egg on top if you wish as well.
How to make Surf & Turf Fried Rice
#1. Marinate your surf & turf
#2. Make yum yum sauce
#3. Cook both proteins
#4. Sauté vegetables
#5. Add egg
6. Toss in day old rice
#7. Season rice
#8. Serve
Recipe Tips
#1 – Day Old Rice
Using day-old rice fries better because there is less moisture. This way you get those crispy bits and not soggy rice.
It’s always best to use day-old rice, but if you’re in a pinch cook rice a couple hours before and place in the freezer or fridge.
#2 – Tender steak
The best cuts of steak to use are ones that are going to cook fast and stay tender — filet, ribeye, top round or sirloin.
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The BEST Surf & Turf Fried Rice
Ingredients
Marinade
- 1 lb raw peeled & deveined shrimp
- 1 lb top sirloin steak, diced **seasoning amounts per protein
- 1 tbsp soy sauce or coco aminos
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tbsp sesame oil
- 1 tbsp honey
- 1 tsp white pepper
- 2 garlic cloves, grated
- 1 tsp ginger, grated
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
Rice
- 2 cups uncooked rice = 6 cups cooked rice
- 1/2 onion, diced
- 1/3 cup frozen peas & carrots
- 2-3 garlic cloves, minced
- 4-5 cups cooked, chilled day old rice
- 1 tsp soy sauce or coco aminos
- 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1/3 cup green onion, sliced
Garlic Butter
- 1/3 cup butter, softened & unsalted
- 2 garlic cloves, grated
- 1 tsp fresh ginger, grated
- 1 tsp soy sauce or coco aminos
Yum Yum Sauce
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 2 tbsp melted butter
- 1/2 tbsp ketchup
- 1/2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
- 1/2 tbsp paprika
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp ginger
Instructions
- Mix softened, room temperature butter with grated garlic & ginger and soy sauce until fully combined.
- Combine all the ingredients for the yum yum sauce and refrigerate while you prep & cool the rest of dish.
- Marinate steak and shrimp for a minimum of 30 minutes with the seasonings above.
- Cook both on medium high heat in a wok or large pan. Steak will only take about 2-3 minutes.
- Remove and add shrimp. Cook until they change color — about a minute. Finish with a tsp of garlic butter (see recipe above) & remove.
- In the same pan/wok, saute onions & carrots until softened.
- Add minced garlic & ginger. Mix until fragrant.
- Break up rice with your hands as you add it to your wok with sesame oil. Let this cook for 2-3 minutes.
- Season with soy sauce, oyster sauce. Toss and mix thoroughly until fully combined.
- Garnish with chopped green onions.
