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Seafood Fried Rice – if you love seafood and love fried rice, this is the dish for you! Mix of fish and seafood stir fried with rice and veggies – perfect meal for any time of the week!

For this dish we use a mix of shrimp and fish. There are many types of fish you can try. This time we are using grouper but salmon is also a great choice.

Types of Fish

There are lots of types of fish we use in Asian cooking, here are just some of the ones we like to use when we are making homemade fish dishes:

Grouper

Grouper is a lean, moist, mild flavor fish. It’s got large flakes and a firm texture. The Red Grouper has has a slightly sweet flavor than Black Grouper. We use this fish a lot!

Cod

Cod is a mild and somewhat buttery white fish. It’s got pretty delicate and flaky flesh – which is awesome when there’s a lot of sauce in the dish! It goes all in the crevices!

Sea Bass

Sea bass is another good white fish for Asian cooking. Similar to cod – sea bass also is a mild, slightly sweet, white fish. It’s flesh is described as moist moist, buttery, and tender.

Flounder

Flounder is also a mild white fish – it is more delicate so if you want to cook with this fish, you may want to be more gentle or else it could easily fall apart. But outside of that it it is also similar to cod and sea bass – slightly sweet and mild.

Salmon

Salmon has a rich, fatty, and buttery flavor profile. While it does have a distant taste, it somehow still works with a lot of dishes, and does not clash – and adds an additional layer of flavor to everything!

BTW if you just want to make some salmon fried rice I got you! Here’s my salmon fried rice recipe!

Pomfret

Pomfret is actually may different types of marine fish species. It is a fish that is very popular to eat in South Asia and India. It is also a dish you can find in Chinese cuisine. It’s not hard to see why so many people like it – its fish meat is soft and buttery when cooked!

Mackerel

Mackerel is a common name applied to a number of different species of pelagic fish. Mackerel contains more calcium, iron, zinc, magnesium, and potassium. On the other hand, tuna is higher in phosphorus and copper and lower in sodium. Taste wise it has been described to be similar to tuna, but I think it’s actually tastier!

Tuna

A tuna is a saltwater fish that belongs to the tribe Thunnini. The Thunnini includes15 species across five genera. Tuna has a buttery and creamy taste combined with a salty and umami flavor.

Shrimp vs. Prawns

Shrimp and Prawns are actually two different animals, however, there is a lot of confusion between Shrimp vs. Prawns, and it’s partly because different regions use different names.

In the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, the name “prawn” is usually used to describe both prawns and shrimp.

While in North America, the name “shrimp” is used more frequently, and the name “prawn” is used to describe larger species.

Shrimp and prawns come from different branches of the crustacean family tree. Shrimp are members of the pleocyemata suborder, and prawns are part of the dendrobranchiata suborder. They have a few differences in anatomy.

Prawns’ shell segments overlap down their abdomen, and so they can’t be as flexible as shrimp. Prawns are usually also larger in size.

In general though, folks use these words interchangeably. If you’re looking for just shrimp fried rice – here’s my shrimp fried rice recipe here!

How to cook Seafood Fried Rice

First, gather your ingredients:

• 2 tbsp cooking oil, separated
• 6 oz fish, cooked
• 6 oz raw shrimp, tails and shells removed, deveined
• 2 tsp sesame oil
• 1 cup frozen mixed veggies (corn, peas, carrots, etc.)
• 2 cups of cooked rice
• 2 tsp minced garlic
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• Salt to taste
• Green onions, chopped

In a cooking pan or wok, add 1 tbsp cooking oil, shrimp, and ham. Stir fry until shrimp is no longer translucent, and remove from heat.

In a large wok or frying pan, add 1 tbsp cooking oil and cook fish over medium-high heat for about 2 minutes, then flip it to cook the other side for another 2 minutes.

Remove the fish from the skillet and use a fork and knife to tear it in to large chunks.

Add 1 tbsp cooking oil, garlic and mixed veggies in to wok and cook for about 2 minutes, or until vegetables begin to soften, stirring occasionally.

With the spatula, move vegetables to one side of the skillet, if the pan is dry go ahead and add a little more oil. Then add the beaten eggs to the other side, and stir it to scramble. I actually usually just crack the eggs in to the pan and then scramble to skip beating the eggs resulting in an extra bowl to wash 🙂

Add the fish and shrimp back in to cooking pan, along with rice, soy sauce, sesame oil, and salt to taste, and stir fry everything to blend together. Cook for about 3 more minutes.

Sprinkle chopped green onions on top (optional), remove from heat and serve!

By the way if you love fried rice recipes, check out this round up of 20+ delicious fried rice recipes from around the world! There’s kimchi fried rice, thai fried rice, chinese fried rice and more!

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