Healthy Mushroom Fried Rice

If you are anything like me you always end up cooking too much rice and end up with some left over.

I hate wasting food and this healthy mushroom fried rice is the perfect recipe for using up the leftovers.

This recipe is very easily customized. Feel free to swap out any of the vegetables for whatever you have in your fridge. Just about anything would work.

This healthy mushroom fried rice makes a great lunch and is equally as good for dinner. It comes together very quickly and can easily be doubled or tripled to accommodate more people.

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Mushroom Fried Rice

Healthy fried rice!

Course Entree, Main Course

Recipe Type gluten-free, vegan

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cook Time 15 minutes

Total Time 25 minutes

Servings 2 servings

Calories 390 kcal

Author Melanie McDonald

Ingredients

• 40g | 1/4 cup raw cashew nuts
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1 bunch salad onions , / spring onions chopped into small pieces
• 1 stick celery , chopped into small chunks
• 1 small bell pepper , chopped into small chunks
• 150g 2 cups of mushrooms (I used Cremini)
• 300 | 2 cups cold cooked rice (white, brown or wild all work well)
• 2 tablespoons tamari , soy sauce or coconut aminos

Instructions

1. Put a large frying pan over a medium heat.
2. Add your cashew nuts to the pan and toast gently for a few minutes until just starting to go brown. Set the nuts aside.
3. Add the sesame oil to the same pan and warm through.
4. Add most of the onions (leave a few to scatter over raw at the end), celery and pepper and fry for a few minutes until beginning to soften.
5. Add the mushrooms and continue cooking for about 2 - 3 minutes.
6. Pour in the rice and Tamari and store well.
7. Keep moving everything about in the pan until the rice has heated through.
8. Add the cashews and remove from the heat.
9. Scatter over the remaining raw onions.
10. Serve at once.

Nutrition Facts

Mushroom Fried Rice

Amount Per Serving (1 serving)

Calories 390 Calories from Fat 108

% Daily Value*

Total Fat 12g 18%

Sodium 800mg 33%

Total Carbohydrates 59g 20%

Dietary Fiber 4.1g 16%

Sugars 6g

Protein 12g 24%

Vitamin A 58%

Vitamin C 136%

Calcium 6%

Iron 24%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.