As with every recipe for fried rice, start with cold (or at least room temperature) cooked rice. It doesn’t work with rice hot out of the cooker, which becomes heavy and stodgy when stir-fried.

I take a pretty freewheeling approach to making fried rice – I look to see what’s ... for another dish.) Slice the Chinese kale stem into rounds about 5mm ( ¼in) thick.

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