How to make bacon rice

Salted pork and vegetable rice is one of the most famous local delicacies in Shanghai. Many people who have been to Shanghai like it very much after eating it. After returning home, they also want to make some salted pork and vegetable rice by themselves. However, they don’t know how to make it, so they miss many good opportunities to eat it. I am an authentic Shanghainese. When I was a child, my mother often made salted pork and vegetable rice for me. Now I write down my mother’s method, and friends who like to eat salted pork and vegetable rice can learn from it.

How to make bacon rice

Ingredients for bacon rice

When making bacon and vegetable rice, you can decide the amount of ingredients according to the number of people in your family. The ingredients are rice, bacon, vegetables, and lard.

Specific steps for making bacon and vegetable rice

1. Remove the old leaves from the prepared vegetables, then soak them in clean water for fifteen minutes. Take them out, change the water, wash them clean, take them out and drain the water for later use.

2. Wash the bacon with clean water, then cut it into smaller cubes. Also chop the washed vegetables into pieces that are about the same size as the cubes.

3. Wash the rice and put it into the rice cooker, adding clean water according to the usual amount of water.

4. Pour lard into the wok and heat it, then stir-fry the chopped vegetables and bacon in the wok. However, be sure to control the heat well. Turn off the heat and take out the meat and vegetables after they change color and no water is released.

5. Put the fried bacon and chopped vegetables into the rice cooker, mix them evenly with a spoon, then cover the rice cooker, plug in the power supply and start steaming rice. After the rice cooker trips, cut off the power supply, simmer for fifteen minutes before opening the lid. The famous Shanghai bacon and vegetable rice you made yourself can be taken out and eaten.