Gluten-Free Fried Rice

Cooked rice fried with vegetables, garlic, ginger and a spice blend, using tamari or gluten-free soy sauce in place of the ordinary kind. No country is claimed; the source describes it as an African take on fried rice without naming where. The gluten in a normal fried rice is almost entirely in one ingredient, and it is the one people overlook. Soy sauce is brewed from wheat as well as soybeans, so a dish that contains no bread, no pasta and no flour is still not gluten-free if soy sauce goes into it. Tamari, which is brewed with little or no wheat, is the standard substitution, and most brands are certified. Rice itself is naturally gluten-free. The other thing worth checking is the spice blend. The source suggests berbere or ras el hanout, and both are usually gluten-free, but commercial blends are frequently bulked out with flour as an anti-caking agent, and neither is a fixed formula. Read the label rather than assuming. One caution about the source's framing. It claims gluten-free is "the second most in-demand recipe option in a lot of African countries", which is a specific statistical claim with nothing behind it, and it has not been carried across.