> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.spoonfeed.be/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Chaufa - URL: https://www.spoonfeed.be/chaufa/ - Published: 2025-06-27T11:14:55.000Z - Updated: 2025-08-15T21:59:52.000Z - Author: Benjamin Daniels - Tags: Recipes, Base: Rice, Cuisine: Peru, Time: Under 30mins ### €4.23 │ €1.06 per portion │ Serves 4 │ Under 30mins │ Peru A fast Peruvian-Chinese fusion, this fried rice is stir fried quickly with plenty of scrambled egg, spring onion, red pepper, soy sauce - and whatever else you choose! - [What to serve it with?](#what-to-serve-it-with) - [Leftovers](#leftovers) - [Utensils](#utensils) - [Ingredients](#ingredients) - [Method](#method) ## What to serve it with? Peruvian meals like chaufa are typically quite hearty - meaning that it's great on its own in generous portions. ## Leftovers Spoonfeed meal plans save you money by using the economy of scale. Making extra from dinner into a leftover lunch avoids spending money and extra time cooking! Chaufa is perfect for using up leftover rice from an earlier dish! Usually when we do chaufa, we add it to a Friday on a meal plan because we don't need lunch the next day. Since you can't reheat rice twice, and it's not ideal to eat cold, (though you can), chaufa is best eaten - and finished! - fresh and piping hot. ## Utensils - Wok - Wooden spatula - Serving spoon ## Ingredients - 300g rice (leftover is best) - 3 eggs - 2 spring onions - 1 red pepper - 3 garlic cloves - Thumb of fresh ginger - 60ml soy sauce - Paprika ⚡ ****Flexible:** ****Add your favourite protein 🍚** Buff up your chaufa with protein. Here's some of what you could cook in step 3, setting aside until step 5: ****\- Frankfurters:** This is traditional! Slice up frankfurter sausages, frying them until charred **+€1.49* ****\- Chicken:** Fry diced chicken **+€4.25* ****\-** ****Beef:** Fry diced beef **+€6.15* ****\- Prawn:** Cook until pink **+€7.30* 🏆 ****Fancy:** ****Chaufa a lo pobre** **+€0.70 per portion +5min* Extra hungry? This variation is maybe not fancy in name, but it sure looks great! Chaufa a lo pobre, or poor man's chaufa, involves adding a side of fried, halved plantain and a fried egg on top of your rice. ## Method 1. Dice pepper and spring onion, separating the white from the green. Dice garlic and ginger finely, almost to a paste. Set aside. 2. Fry and scramble eggs like omelette in a large wok with good oil. Set aside when cooked. 3. Now is also a good time to cook your chosen protein and set that aside. 4. On a medium-high heat, you can now fry the pepper, garlic, ginger, and the whites of the spring onion all together until fragrant. Keep the pan moving. 5. Add spices. Once frying well, add back in your reserved ingredients and then throw in your leftover rice. Cook for about 1 minute. 6. Pour in good soy sauce until brown (a great time to have both light and dark soy sauce on hand, you can use 2/3 light and 1/3 dark just for the colour). 7. Toss all the ingredients until piping hot. 8. Stir in half of the greens of spring onion and serve with the other half on top. 9. Enjoy!