Kimchi Fried Rice with Chinese Sausage (Lap Cheong)

Any style of fried rice with chinese sausage or lap cheong has very little chance of going wrong. So, salty, spicy kimchi with sweet pieces of lap cheong .. the combination taste just great.

I wanted to use up the batch of kimchi that I had made some time ago. As it was made with an 'instant' recipe, I don't think it should be kept too long.
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Kimchi Fried Rice with Lap Cheong
1. Cut up the kimchi to smaller pieces, because the kimchi is very salty from the fish sauce that I had marinaded it with.
2. I cooked 1.5 cups of a mix of basmati and red rice, to increase the fiber content and make this a healthier meal. Maybe, this will compensate (a little) or be the redemption for the fat of the lap cheong.
3. Slice an onion and a few cloves of garlic.
4. Fry the lap cheong for a minute or two. Then, its oil can brown the onions. Add in the garlic.
5. Lastly, add the rice, cut kimchi and mix well. No other seasoning (maybe a dash of pepper) is needed because when you bite into the pieces of kimchi and lap cheong, its flavour will 'carry' the rice well enough.

Cut up kimchi to smaller pieces.

Saute lap cheong with onions and garlic.

Fried rice.

Weekday quickie re-heatable meals.

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