Fried rice with SPAM

 Nauru is a country in Oceania, this country needs to import most of the vegetables, fruits and meat because the island only has 21 Km and the land is not capable of grow vegetables, no need to say, there is no space to have cattle.

Vegetables arrive frozen and the meat is canned!. One way to eat meat is the popular 'SPAM' , it is a mixture of different parts of pork meat.

One of the typical dishes is fried rice with 'SPAM' , omelette and frozen vegetables. It is a dish imported from China due to the great quantity of chinese inmigrants.

Ingredients:

- 2 eggs.
- Rice.
- 1 tablespoon coconut oil.
- Salt.
- 1/4 tablespoon pepper.
- SPAM
- Frozen vegetable.
- 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce.
- 1/4 tablespoon de sesame oil.
- 1 tablespoon and a half soy sauce.
- 2 clove of garlic.

Method:

1- Wash the rice and cook it at high heat adding double quantity of water and salt. Once it reaches boiling point put it on a low heat, cover and cook for 15-20 minutes. Let stand while you prepare the rest of the ingredients.

2- whisk the eggs.

3- Pour some coconut oil in a frying pan, heat the oil and add the egg , make the omelette cooking 2 or 3 minutes every side.

4- Cut garlic and  SPAM in little pieces.

5- Put the remaining coconut oil in a casserole, sautée the garlic and   SPAM for 3-4 minutes.

6 - Cook the frozen vegetables in water with salt, once it reaches boiling point put on a low heat and cook for 15 minutes.

7 - Add the vegetables with the SPAM, stir and cook for 2 minutes.

8 - Add rice and stir well.

9- Add pepper, fish sauce, soy sauce, sesame oil, salt and cook for 2 more minutes.

10- Add the omelette that you have cut in little pieces.

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