Turn Your Chinese Leftovers into This Sausage Fried Rice
All photos by Farideh Sadeghin.

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Turn Your Chinese Leftovers into This Sausage Fried Rice

General Tso’s got nothing on this dish.
All photos by Farideh Sadeghin.

Photo by Farideh Sadeghin.

Chinese takeout is best eaten with a pair of chopsticks straight out of a folded paper box—preferably while wearing sweatpants and/or a bathrobe. While you're busy chowing down on carton after carton of kung pao chicken and Mongolian beef, that side of white rice often gets neglected before sitting in the fridge until it expires.

Well, no more.

Homer Murray and Sean Telo of Brooklyn restaurant 21 Greenpoint recently stopped by the MUNCHIES Test Kitchen to show us the very best way to revive your leftover rice: Turn it into this bangin' Portuguese sausage fried rice. Sure, you can also make rice from scratch, but why bother?

RECIPE: Portuguese Sausage Fried Rice

Just fry up some smoky linguica sausage, then pop your rice out of that paper carton and cook it in the sausage grease along with garlic, celery, and onion, before adding a couple of eggs and some scallions on top.

It's salty, smoky, and nourishing as hell on a cold winter night. And best of all, if you're using leftover rice, you only need one pan. General Tso's got nothing on this dish.