Jamerrill’s Large Family Stir Fry Fried Rice Recipe 
My large family style Stir Fry Fried Rice (yes, that’s just what I’m calling it!) is a big hit at my house. My husband asks for this dinner often. It has taken me years to get it *just so.* This large family recipe is super frugal and you can adapt it to serve your family’s needs and preferences.
Now this recipe is a more hands-on, longer recipe than my Slow Cooker meals. It usually takes me about 45-minutes or so to cook this up. What I love about this recipe is once it’s cooked up I can take an extra day or two off from larger cooking. Don’t worry, it’s so good we don’t mind warming it up and enjoying the Stir Fry Fried Rice for a few meals. Let’s take a look at how I throw this together, shall we?
Large Family Stir Fry Fried Rice Recipe
Stir Fry Fried Rice Ingredients
- 7 Cups Uncooked Brown Rice (you could use any rice you prefer) – this will yield approximately 14 cups of cooked rice.
- 4 lbs Boneless/Skinless Chicken Breasts (Any meat will do: Chicken, Pork, Beef, etc)
- 12 Eggs
- Frozen Vegetables (this go round I had a bag of frozen corn, frozen peas, and California Medley)
- Fresh Veggies (I used carrots, green onion, yellow onion, red/orange/yellow peppers, and an avocado)
- Soy Sauce
- Sesame Oil
- Garlic Powder/Onion Powder
First I get the 4 lbs of boneless/skinless chicken breast cooking in my large cast iron pan. I add in a whole yellow onion, garlic and onion powder, and shake in some sesame oil (approx 3 table spoons).
Once the chicken is fully cooked I add in several colored peppers and sliced carrots. I put the lid on the chicken with these veggies for several minutes until the veggies are soft.
This is a great time to prepare the 7 cups of uncooked brown rice. This go round I had 4 boxes of instant brown rice from Aldi. This was very quick and turned out lovely! Here are 4 ways to cook brown rice if you’re interested.
The only thing you need to do with the rice is prepare it. You don’t need to season it or do anything fancy. Get it cooked and set it aside in a large container. I use this large rubbermaid container.
Once the chicken and included veggies are complete I pour them into my large counter with the now 14 cups of cooked brown rice.
I then reuse my same large pan that the chicken was cooked in. I add in 1 cup of chicken broth, along with 1 cup of soy sauce. Next I pour in all of my frozen veggies and remaining colored peppers, mushrooms, green onions, and avocado. I put the lid on for about 3 minutes.
Meanwhile, I start frying a dozen eggs in another pan. I scramble the eggs with my spatula as they cook. I add in a few of the veggies cooking in the soy sauce in with my eggs.
After the Soy Sauce veggies and scrambled eggs are complete things get really easy. I dump all the veggies into the large Rubbermaid container to finally meet up with the chicken and brown rice. I mix it all together for a minute or two. Then we serve it in bowls and chow down like China town. 🙂 Or Virginia.
Jamerrill’s Stir Fry Fried Rice (can I just call it that?!) | Large Family Style!
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Thank you so much for being such an encouraging woman to others!! You have inspired me to start my own blog and YouTube channel. I feel God is behind me all the way and I hope I can be as encouraging to others as you have been to me! I cannot wait to make this recipe! It looks delicious!! Mysocalledfarm.com
This looks so yummy! Is this a Trim Healthy Mama recipe?
It could be a cross-over, I believe 🙂
That looks great! I was wondering if you could com the chicken in the crockpot first or ahead of time . I have a very busy toddler and a one month old so I’m not sure if could attempt this at the stove top 🙂 I love all the encouragement from your site!
Yes, you could! I actually cooked my chicken ahead in the slow cooker for this month and froze it. When I make this recipe I just set my chicken out to defrost or defrost in the microwave – still tastes great!!
Great thank you so much!! My slow cooker is a life saver! My little girl is so busy that I can’t look away very long 🙂 love your receipes! My family size is smaller we have 3 little ones, one who doesn’t even contribute to the grocery bill, but I’m always looking for ways to save money on food.
I am just in the process of working out how can do freezer meals for my family of 7. We are in Canada, so the fact that you can feed your family for $600/month is amazing to me. Our food prices here are much higher, but I do believe that I can keep my cost down by beginning to freezer cook. Thank you so much for all of your tips and tricks!!!
Does this recipe for fried rice freeze well?
Meredith, I use to feed my family for about $1000-$1200 a month (plus another $200 for household items). Now that we’ve moved and I have an Aldi close, I’ve been coming in around $800-ish on groceries ($640 for my big haul and $200 for my small fill-in haul), plus another $200 for household items. Just didn’t want you to think I only spend $600. It’s a little more than that, but I’m still finding a few hundred dollar a month savings now with Aldi. 😀 I hope to share more freezer meal ideas soon!!
I made this for dinner tonight and it’s definitely a keeper! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you so much for all your wonderful ideas and encouragement. You truly are a proverbs 31 woman! I just had a pan and time saving idea for your fried rice recipe: instead of cooking eggs separate, form a pit in the middle of your almost done dish, crack all eggs in the middle indent, add all spices to eggs, whisk it with a fork, mix the fried rice in to it, let sit on high heat for 3 to 4 minutes, flip and repeat one more time. If you notice in Chinese restaurants the egg is mixed in not separate, that’s why I stopped cooking eggs separate. Anyway, not at all a criticism just something I discovered over time and just a tiny token of my gratitude for the billion of brilliant ideas you generously give all of us. Thank you again for all you do, you are deeply valued and appreciated!
Thank you for this post!! I used to make fried rice all the time for my kids when they were little. But now with 6 kids and more teenagers every year, i had stopped making it because I don’t have a pan big enough. I can’t believe this simple prep never occurred to me. We made a huge batch last weekend and it was so great to have for a quick meal. You definitely have a new follower!!
Wonderful! I’m so glad it worked well for your fam!! xoxo
Is there a printer-friendly version of this recipe so I can print it and add it to my recipe collection?
This taste so good! Thank you so much for taking the time to post your prepping routine. It’s a keeper. Next time I will make a smaller version. There is so much. I might be eating it all week. Lol.