A method of preparing industrially and inexpensively fried rice having nice-smelling, well-harmonized taste, soft on the inner side of the grains of the cooked rice and lightly separated at the surfaces thereof, and also suited to be freeze-preserved is disclosed. The method of preparing fried rice, including a rice washing step, a rice immersion step, a rice cooking step and a rice frying step. In this method, two frying steps 11, 15 are carried out in at least two stages out of a stage between a rice washing step 10 and rice immersion step 13, a stage between the immersion step 13 and cooking step 14, an intermediate stage of the cooking stage 14, and a latter stage of the cooking step 14, for example, in a stage between the washing step 10 and immersion step 13, and the latter stage of the cooking step 14.