DISH RESEARCH · Rice dish
Fried Rice
Also known as: Rice, egg fried, ready cooked, re-heated, retail, not takeaway, Rice, egg fried, takeaway
Bintu Hardy shares this sausage-and-okra fried rice among her Sierra Leonean recipes, recalling the rice dishes she cooked with her sisters during gatherings at home.
About Fried Rice
Bintu Hardy shares this sausage-and-okra fried rice among her Sierra Leonean recipes, recalling the rice dishes she cooked with her sisters during gatherings at home. Rice, okra and scallions form its vegetable-and-grain base.
Sausage adds savoury richness, with tamari seasoning the rice and chilli sauce alongside. The okra and sliced scallions give the dish its distinctive vegetable character.
The rice is presented with slices of sausage and okra throughout. Fried yellow plantains and chilled ginger beer are suggested alongside, adding sweet and sharp contrasts to the savoury rice.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Soy.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Fried Rice
Bintu Hardy’s Sierra Leonean sausage-and-okra fried rice.
- Quick-cook riceBase · Sausage okra rice
- Vegetable oilCooking medium · Sausage okra riceIngredient page not linked
- Gluten-free chipolata sausagesProtein · Sausage okra riceIngredient page not linked
- OkraBase · Sausage okra rice
- ScallionsAromatic · Sausage okra rice
- Tamari soy sauceSeasoning · Sausage okra rice
- Chilli sauceAccompaniment · Sausage okra riceIngredient page not linked
- Yellow plantainsAccompaniment · Optional fried plantains · Optional
- SaltSeasoning · Optional fried plantains · Optional
- Rapeseed oilCooking medium · Optional fried plantains · Optional
- Fresh ginger rootAromatic · Optional ginger beer · Optional
- WaterLiquid · Optional ginger beer · Optional
- ClovesSeasoning · Optional ginger beer · Optional
- SugarSweetener · Optional ginger beer · Optional
- Lime juiceSeasoning · Optional ginger beer · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Quick-cook rice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual75 literal quick-cook rice, grain variety/brand unprovided; broader rice candidate.
- Vegetable oil: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual79 generic vegetable oil, exact species unknown.
- Gluten-free chipolata sausages: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual82–83 named prepared sausages, animal species/casing/complete seasoning formula unprovided; no reconstructed plain historical formula.
- Okra: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual87 sliced okra.
- Scallions: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual91–92.
- Tamari soy sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Soy source-confirmed. Actual94 conventional soy sauce confirms Soy; product exact grain formula unprovided, no allergen absence.
- Chilli sauce: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual96/102 required served sauce in this offered recipe, full formula unknown.
- Yellow plantains (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Suggested optional side from main14–15; own47/105 selected firm yellow branch, not green/black varieties. Inner main ingredient required.
- Salt (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Optional side parent; own174/183 original plain salt seasoning selected over separate alternative seasoning routes78–88. Inner plain recipe required.
- Rapeseed oil (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Optional side parent; own72/204 first expressly offered oil chosen, distinct from untyped main vegetable oil. Inner selected frying medium required.
- Fresh ginger root (optional): Inner selected beverage ingredient required/to taste; whole suggested accompaniment optional.. Main14–20 offers plantains plus gingerbeer OR ginger/lemongrass tea. First gingerbeer selected, all beverage-only foods parentoptional. Own beverage54/70–71 required root.
- Water (optional): Inner selected beverage ingredient required/to taste; whole suggested accompaniment optional.. Main14–20 offers plantains plus gingerbeer OR ginger/lemongrass tea. First gingerbeer selected, all beverage-only foods parentoptional. Own58 first boiling-water option selected over sparkling, method71 blender water and72 infusion.
- Cloves (optional): Inner selected beverage ingredient required/to taste; whole suggested accompaniment optional.. Main14–20 offers plantains plus gingerbeer OR ginger/lemongrass tea. First gingerbeer selected, all beverage-only foods parentoptional. Own61/73 named cloves, conventional clove spice; no garlic inferred.
- Sugar (optional): Inner selected beverage ingredient required/to taste; whole suggested accompaniment optional.. Main14–20 offers plantains plus gingerbeer OR ginger/lemongrass tea. First gingerbeer selected, all beverage-only foods parentoptional. Own66/75 to taste, no sugar omission asserted.
- Lime juice (optional): Inner selected beverage ingredient required/to taste; whole suggested accompaniment optional.. Main14–20 offers plantains plus gingerbeer OR ginger/lemongrass tea. First gingerbeer selected, all beverage-only foods parentoptional. Own68/75 explicit juice.
Origins & food traditions
Sierra Leone association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.
Countries
- Sierra Leone
- Sierra LeoneCatalogue link pending review
- ChinaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Sierra Leonean Cuisine
- Sierra Leonean CuisineCatalogue link pending review
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