ThenRice cooked with pantry ingredients like corn, mushrooms, and scallions in a black pepper sauce. This black pepper mushroom fried rice is simple, delicious, and perfect for a fast weeknight meal.
Hi! This is Andrea from Cooking with a Wallflower, and this month I wanted to share with you a brand new recipe perfect for weeknight dinners.
We’ve been working longer hours lately so we’ve been doing a lot of meal prepping. And if we didn’t meal prep, then we’re always on the lookout for quick and easy meals. For dinners that don’t take long for us to prep and cook. And one of our favorites? Fried rice.
Fried rice does not need to be fancy. All you really need is leftover rice that has been dried out in the fridge overnight. Maybe some garlic and onions and soy sauce. This is the simplest version.
For today’s recipe, the flavor of the fried rice is a little different. Black pepper mushroom fried rice is a little bit sweet and a little bit savory. Slight spicy from the freshly grounded black pepper. It gives the fried rice a little more depth in flavor. I also added items like frozen corn, or canned, and mushrooms. But you can easily add your favorite ingredients.
In a small bowl, add soy sauce, honey, water, garlic, and oil. Then whisk together until combined. Set aside for now.
In a medium sized pan, add vegetable oil, and allow it to heat over medium heat. Once the vegetable oil is hot, add onions, then stir the onions and cook them for a couple minutes.
Add mushrooms to the pan next, and cook for a few minutes until soft.
Then add the rice and corn. Pour the sauce over everything and stir until combined.
Add black pepper, and stir everything together until incorporated. Add butter just as you’re about to serve. Mix to let the butter melt into the fried rice. It elevates the flavor of the fried rice.
Serve the black pepper mushroom fried rice hot.
Enjoy!
Andrea
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 ½ tablespoons honey
- 1 tablespoon water
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- ½ medium onion, diced
- 4-5 mushrooms, roughly torn
- ½ cup corn, canned or frozen
- 1 ½ cups cooked rice, refrigerated overnight
- 1 teaspoon black pepper, more to taste
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 stalk scallion, finely sliced
- In a small bowl, add soy sauce, honey, water, garlic, and oil. Whisk together until combined. Set aside for now.
- In a medium sized pan, add vegetable oil, and allow it to heat over medium heat. Once the vegetable oil is hot, add onions. Stir the onions and cook them for a couple minutes.
- Add mushrooms to the pan next, and cook for a few minutes until soft.
- Then add the rice and corn. Pour the sauce over everything and stir until combined.
- Add black pepper, and stir everything together until incorporated. Add butter just as you’re about to serve. Mix to let the butter melt into the fried rice. It elevates the flavor of the fried rice.
- Serve the black pepper mushroom fried rice hot.
