My gama makes a version of this and calls it gofuther (go further but it ends up being gofuther because of our Texas slur). It is usually leftover chicken and veggies and cream of something soup. Not my favorite thing in the world, mostly because of the cream of chicken soup. So this is my solution to leftover chicken, veggies and it is best with leftover rice but you can make some too.
One of my best friends, Karelle, taught me how to make authentic fried rice. She said that the color on the rice comes from cooking the precooked rice for a long time, essentially roasting it in a skillet. That was interesting because I thought it came from the soy sauce so my fried rice always turned out mushy.