Quick question - fried rice

[HillCountryCook]

I have leftover rice, chicken, asparagus, and assorted sauces and things and I'm going to whip up a chicken fried rice for supper. Seems like the last time I made it (eons ago) I added the beaten eggs at the end to the whole mixture and stirred it until the eggs were set. Now I'm finding recipes say to cook the eggs first, cut into strips, and then stir in at the end. Do you have a preference? Would it really make that much difference in the taste to cook them up first?

[sneezles]

I prefer to cook the eggs separate as I like to see the bits of egg. Sometimes when I make the hole in the middle of the wok it's really too full to allow me to cook the eggs properly so they kind of disappear. Of course, when I make fried rice it's for four hungry men...

[potato_moose]

When DH does fried rice he cooks everything pretty much separately except the eggs, mixes everything together in the wok, pushes it to the side, then adds the eggs to the empty side and gives it a quick scramble, then cuts it in to everything else.

Hope that makes sense!

[aggie94]

I actually toss the eggs into the wok first, scramble them lightly, then add everything else that's going into the fried rice. The eggs finish cooking with the rice/veggies/meat, but then again, I don't mind really well-done scrambled eggs.

[ljt2r]

I echo what the others have said, and agree it does not need to be fussy, as potato moose describes. I definitely would not cook in--will make the rice mushy I think.

[sneezles]

Originally Posted by aggie94

I actually toss the eggs into the wok first, scramble them lightly, then add everything else that's going into the fried rice. The eggs finish cooking with the rice/veggies/meat, but then again, I don't mind really well-done scrambled eggs.

Well, this is a DUH moment for me! I will do this next time, thanks Eva!