Hot Joy: Fried Rice, Hot Joy-Style

I think what makes fried rice really awesome is

just because it's a big bowl of starch, I don't know.

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Mainly what Hot Joy is about and where it came from

is me cooking for myself at my house.

I'm Quealy Watson, and I'm the chef

at Hot Joy in San Antonio.

We'll research really authentic dishes,

make them as best we can as close to the original dish and

then say this is really great,

but how are we gonna mess it up?

I would rather have people walk away

from Hot Joy and call the food kinda trashy

than what I get a lot which is stoner food.

Stoner food, I think, implies that it,

not a lotta thought went into it,

and you're just, like, slicing hot dogs

into a bowl of ramen or something.

We put a lotta effort into making trashy food. (laughs)

Migas is a Mexican dish that they serve

all over San Antonio.

Essentially scrambled eggs, pico de gallo or red salsa,

tortilla chips at the end and cheddar cheese.

The idea behind this is to take a classic Mexican dish and

turn it into a fried rice,

so this is what we're gonna be using.

Eggs that we're gonna scramble.

We also have cilantro, jalapeno,

just regular yellow cheddar, diced onion,

green onion that's been thinly sliced, tomatillo jaew.

It's a mix between a Thai sauce and

a Mexican red chile sauce.

Then we have rice.

This rice has been cooked a day ahead.

Valentina's hot sauce, what I grew up eating.

It's what my grandfather used.

Then lastly corn tortillas.

We'll start by frying these

then we'll put them in at the end.

We use rice brand oil.

You can use whatever you're comfortable with

as long as it has a high smoke point.

We get the oil hot, throw in

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your jalapeno and onion,

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our scrambled eggs, and then we throw in the rice

that's cooked ahead a time.

Then once it gets nice and hot we put in the jaew.

What you're looking for is a really hot pan,

so that the moisture immediately evaporates.

Then at the end, we throw in our cheddar,

the chips that we made earlier.

Then you just get the cheese to slightly melted.

Just enough time to get it a little hot,

throw in the cilantro and some green onions.

You don't wanna cook the rice too long.

Then at the end, we throw on some hot sauce

and some more fresh herbs to go on top.

That's how you make Hot Joy's Migas fried rice.

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It's like pretty awesome when you're hung over (laughs)

or any time pretty much.

This is Hot Joy food, so there's nothing standard about it.

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