Learn how to cook “fried rice” in your rice cooker with all your favorite ingredients like eggs, Chinese sausage and veggies! This one-pot cooking method doesn’t include any stir-frying, yet the rice cooker still infuses the rice with wonderful salty and umami flavors. You’ll love this easy rice cooker method, with the press of a button, you’ll have delicious and a healthier take on fried rice!
The rice cooker is such a mighty little appliance. You can make so many variations of rice like turmeric yellow rice, rice pilaf and Spanish rice! My rice cooker fried rice recipe is a great option when you feel like fried rice, but don’t have any leftover rice handy to quickly whip up a meal. This is a one pot meal that’ll save you time and requires very minimal cleanup. No more takeout, this will be your new favorite way to make fried rice – especially on busy weeknights!
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Ingredients & notes
Rice - I am using Jasmine rice for a nice and fluffy texture.
Chinese sausage - This Kam Yen Jan brand is one of the best sausages around, in my opinion. It cooks easily and has the most delicious salty flavor to add to the rice. You can get them at most Asian stores. If you’re not able to get these, feel free to use ham or your meat of choice. Leftover rotisserie chicken would be great as well.
Eggs - Eggs are an essential ingredient to fried rice and yes, it will cook well in the rice cooker!
Vegetables - Frozen vegetables are my go-to for convenience. If you want to use fresh veggies, all you have to do is dice them into smaller pieces.
Soy sauce - Use regular soy sauce, or low sodium works well too.
Fish sauce - My secret sauce for the flavoring, get a bottle of fish sauce at your local Asian market.
Chicken broth - adds additional great flavor to the rice.
Equipment
I am using a Tiger JBV- S series. The cooker is also small enough that it doesn’t take up a lot of counter space, but has the capacity to cook up to 5 cups of dry rice for larger parties.
Instructions
1). Prep the ingredients, wash and drain the rice, mince the garlic, chop up the onion and cut the sausage into smaller pieces.
2). Add the rice, broth, garlic, onion, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar and butter. Then give it a swirl to mix together.
3). Add veggies, sausage, and a beaten egg on top of the water.
4). Set the rice cooker to cook. When done, fluff the rice and mix the ingredients together.
Garnish with green onions, serve with a side of sliced cucumbers.
Pro tips
- After washing the rice, make sure to drain it well, otherwise the rice will become mushy with the excess water.
- Some sides that go great with ice cooker fried rice are: seaweed, avocados, cucumbers and carrot sticks.
- Serve with Sriracha for some spice.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, the eggs will be steamed and cooked.
The rice cooker’s function is mostly heating the water and steaming the ingredients inside the pot. You cannot fry with the rice cooker.
Yes, if it is raw meat, make sure to cut it into smaller portions and add to the rice, it will cook through.
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Easy Rice Cooker Fried Rice with Egg
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup Jasmine rice use US measuring (dry) cup
- 1 ¼ cup chicken broth
- ¾ cup frozen vegetables
- ¾ cups Chinese sausage, cut into ½" thick rounds, then halved 2 links
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- ¼ cup onion, chopped
- 1 egg, lightly whisked
- ½ tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon fish sauce
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
- green onions garnish
Instructions
- Rinse rice in a mesh strainer. Make sure to shake out excess water well.
- Add the rice, broth, garlic, onion, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar and butter. Then give it a swirl to mix together.
- Add the vegetables, sausage, and a beaten egg on top of the chicken broth.
- Set rice cooker to cook or start (depending on the cooker functions).
- When done, fluff with a fork and top with green onion and serve.
Notes
- Measuring cup used is the standard US measuring cup, not the cup that came with the rice cooker.
- Make sure to drain the water well, give it a few hard shakes in the strainer to take out as much water as possible. Too much residual water may make the dish mushy.
- Feel free to use ham or your meat of choice. Leftover rotisserie chicken would be great as well.
- Some sides that go great with rice cooker fried rice are: seaweed, avocados, cucumbers and carrot sticks.
- Serve with Sriracha for some spice.
- Store leftover in an airtight container for up to 3 days in the refrigerator.
- Freeze in the freezer in an airtight container for up to a month.
Anne V
I followed the instructions exactly, but the rice didn't cook all the way. I used a Hamilton rice cooker, though, that was significantly less expensive than yours, so maybe that was the problem.
Kaylie
Sorry to hear that, next time you can just hit the cook button until it cooks through.
Lois Dowling
Great recipe for a busy work night. Easy and delicious. I added a little oyster sauce, about the same amount as the soy sauce. Mixed in sesame oil after the rice was done cooking. Hard to tell the difference between rice cooked on the stove in a wok, best part is not having to stand over a hot stove.
Kaylie
Thanks for sharing! I'll try the oyster sauce next time, and wow - I'm sure the sesame oil really kicked it up a notch! YUM!
Marcy
This was great. I think I added a little too much liquid so it was a bit mushy but the flavor was out of this world! Will try again with less liquid!
Kaylie
I'm so glad you liked it, and sorry to hear it came out mushy. I use Jasmine rice, and with my rice cooker, 1 1/4 cups broth works great. Try using 1 cup and two table spoons of broth next time and let me know how it turns out.
Amnesia
"Add the vegetables, sausage, and a beaten egg on top of the water. " - you mean on top of the 2.5 cup of chicken broth?
Kaylie
yes! sorry about that! place all the ingredients after you add the broth.
JEB
I tried this recipe. I left out the fish sauce. other wise was good my little aroma 2 cup (dry) 4 cup cooked rice cooker was very full. I made the 4 serving size it turned out pretty good. I substituted onion powder and garlic powder for the cloves and onion, because the store was out of diced onions and wanted me to buy a whole can of garlic cloves, it is just me so they would have gone to waste.
Kaylie
Great substitutes and glad to hear it came out well!
Drew
Awesome dish! I cooked this in our zojirushi rice cooker and it was amazing. I added some thai curry paste for some spice. I made extra for our lunches for work.
Thanks For the Recipe!
Kaylie
Thai curry paste seems like a great addition!
Adrianne
I just made this tonight with smoked salmon instead of sausage, and I cooked it in the $16 rice cooker I bought from Aldi. It came out perfectly delicous.
I did use the tip about adding a little sesame oil when it was done.
Kaylie
Wow I love all the ingredients you added to this recipe! it sounds so good!
Sam
I have one of the small, cheap rice cookers. I made the recipe as written and once the rice cooker turned itself to warm, I stirred it and then set it to cook again. During the second cooking cycle, I stirred the rice occasionally so it wouldn't burn. Once the rice cooker turned itself to warm for the second time, it was perfectly cooked. The flavour was amazing and the texture was good (not mushy) but I found the texture was much more like fried rice cooked on the stove after sitting in the fridge overnight. In future, I will cook it the day before and reheat it.
Kaylie
So happy you enjoyed it!
Chris J
This looks amazing. I am definitely going to try this. Thank you so much!
Kaylie
Hope you enjoy!
Cass
Great recipe for a busy parent on a week night. I doubled the recipe so that I had leftovers for kids lunch boxes the next day. I also used 2 cups medium grain rice and added 3 cups chicken stock, because that’s the ratio of liquid to rice on the rice packet: It came out really nice. I’d like to try it again and experiment to substitute Chinese sausages for diced bacon and/or chicken.
Kaylie
Please let me know how the substitutions work!