cherry sriracha summer fried rice

Cherry Sriracha Summer Fried Rice

ingredients:

• 2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil
• 2 garlic cloves, minced
• ¼ C thinly sliced onions
• 1 C thinly sliced vegetables such as: carrots, red peppers, baby boy chok
• ½ pound medium shrimp, peeled, deveined and cut in 3/4-inch pieces
• 3 - 4 cups cooked and cooled brown, basmati or long-grain rice
• 1 bunch scallions, thinly sliced, white and green parts separated
• ¼ cup fresh pineapple, chopped
• ½ C raw cashews
• 1/4 cup Jojo's Cherry Sriracha
• 3 T honey
• 1/4 cup soy sauce

directions:

Heat a wok or large, heavy nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until a drop of water evaporates upon contact. Add the remaining oil and swirl around the pan, then add the shrimp and cook about one minute, stirring and tossing with a spatula or wok scoop until just about cooked through and pink.

Add the garlic and onions, and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the vegetables. Cook until they have started to soften.

Add the rice. Cook the rice — scooping it up, then pressing it into the pan and scooping it up again — for about two minutes.

Stir in white and lighter green parts of the scallions and the pineapple.

Stir the jojo’s Cherry Sriracha, honey & soy sauce together in a separate bowl. Balance the sweet/heat/umami flavors to suit (skip this step if you are a jojo’s freak and already have our cherryaki prepped and ready to go).

Add the mixture and cashews to the pan. Stir together for about half a minute. Taste for seasoning. Add up to a ¼ C of water if the rice seems at all dry and not fried-rice-like.

Sprinkle with scallion greens and cilantro over the top.

Serve hot or room temp.