A couple of weeks ago, I was in a situation I oftentimes find myself in: plenty of food in the fridge (in this case Memorial Day cookout leftovers) but I didn’t want to eat it. We’d had leftovers from our cookout for a couple days in a row and I was desperate for something different. I realized I had rice, two eggs, a pineapple that needed to be eaten stat and some chicken sausage. I figured I could use all of those things to throw together a meal. I thought that if it turned out to be tasty, I’d share it here on the blog. Y’all. This was so dang good. I made it again a few days ago just to make sure it was as good as I remembered. It was. Add this pineapple chicken fried rice to your “30 minute dinner” arsenal, stat!
- 1 cup cooked brown rice
- 1/2 fresh pineapple, chopped
- 4 chicken sausage links, chopped
- 2 eggs
- a handful of fresh spinach, chopped
- 1/2 c of low sodium soy sauce
- Cook brown rice, set aside
- Scramble 2 eggs and cut into bite sized pieces
- While egg is cooking, slice sausage and spinach
- Once egg is cooked and chopped, put the rice, egg and sausage in a pan over medium heat
- Cook for about 8 minutes, stirring often
- While the rice mixture is cooking, chop the spinach and pineapple and add to the pan once chopped
- Cook about 5 minutes more, mixing in soy sauce in final five minutes.
- Add fresh ground pepper to taste.
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Looks like an easy recipe to whip up on a weeknight! My kids would certainly eat it.
Deborah @ Confessions of a Mother Runner recently posted…Reston Sprint Tri Recap & What’s next?
Yes! And you could do it without the meat and just have them add meat at the end, too!
Oh my, this looks amazing!! All of my favorite things in one dish! Yum!
It’s really really tasty 🙂
I love making my own fried rice. Its so easy, and so much healthier than ordering it from a restaurant.
Kathryn @ Dancing to Running recently posted…Bad Ass Runner Virtual 5 Mile Race Recap
Yes, so easy and really healthy and delicious too 🙂
Um, YES, please!! I love chicken sausage and I would never have been creative enough to think of adding it to a stir fry; thanks so much for sharing this idea, Courtney! We WILL be trying this one!!
Tara @ Running ‘N’ Reading recently posted…Eight Hundred Grapes by Laura Dave
You will love it, I promise 🙂
ahhh, looks and sounds so amazing!! I love pineapple and chicken sausage. mmm. thanks for sharing.
Mar @ Mar on the Run recently posted…Medina Half Marathon Race Recap
It’s the best!!
I never would have put pineapple and sausage together, but now that I think about it the sweet/savory combination would be pretty good!
Fiona @ Get Fit Fiona recently posted…Women’s World Cup 2015
I love pineapple, yummy!
Abby recently posted…People over PRs! – Running – It Is All About Community
Nothing better than fresh pineapple!
I’ve been craving pineapple a lot lately. This would be a perfect meal to make and then eat throughout the week.
Hollie recently posted…Lorraine.
Yeah, I had it for two or three days in a row. Got better every meal 🙂
Looks so good! Can’t wait to try it.
Jennifer recently posted…Chicago Marathon Training Plan….and All That Jazz
it’s super tasty!