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fried rice

fried rice

11 1.0
Rice cooked in a hot pan with oil, vegetables, and eggs
  • noun
  • /fraɪd raɪs/
translation icon : arroz frito
  • I've got egg fried rice, chicken with Nando's rub stuff on it, and peas and a big old glass of juice.
  • shrimp fried rice
  • pork fried rice
  • chicken fried rice

OK, we are making today Indonesian fried rice.

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Examples

  • After a long day, I wanted nothing more than a bowl of fried rice with eggs and peas.

  • Give me an order of fried rice and some, uh, chicken wings.

    Stronger (2017)

  • This is the chicken fried rice that my mom is making.

  • Think I could make this fried rice with the rest of it?

    Blog text (1)

  • Do they come with egg fried rice?

    The Magic Roundabout (2004)

  • I love chicken fried rice; I get it frequently.

    Blog text (1)

  • Look here, I ordered shrimp fried rice.

    Booty Call (1997)

  • Start by laying out all the ingredients for the chicken fried rice before you start cooking.

    Blog text (1)

  • It's just fried rice with egg and avocado.

  • I had Panda Express fried rice this morning, so we're good to go.

Synonyms

stir-fried rice
vsfried rice
1 1.6

Rice quickly cooked in a little oil with vegetables or meat

focuses more on ingredients like vegetables and eggs than merely the cooking method
Chinese fried rice
vsfried rice
1.0

A dish of cooked rice quickly fried with egg, green onions and meat or shrimp

is the general dish stir-fried with vegetables, eggs, and various proteins

How Simple

fried rice
11 1.0
pilaf
5 3.3
risotto
42 4.5
paella
17 5.1

Surface Forms

fried rice singular
fried rices plural

Morphology

fried + rice

The meaning 'a dish of rice cooked by frying' is directly and compositionally derived from 'fried' (prepared by frying) + 'rice' (the grain), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer the MWE. The adjective+noun structure is a standard, cross-linguistically common composition in cooking vocabulary, making the expression immediately transparent.

Etymology

Fried rice began as a smart way to use leftover cooked rice by quickly frying it in a hot pan with eggs and vegetables so the old rice tasted fresh. That's why the name fried rice uses fried to show how the rice is cooked and now means 'a dish of rice stir-fried with other ingredients'.