Some rice. However much you intend to eat, or how much will fit in the pans available, whichever is less.
An onion. Always one onion.
Some oil. The edible sort. No particular amount, just have a bottle of it to hand and you'll be fine. And I don't really care which sort of oil it is, either. Olive, sunflower, generic vegetable, it won't make any difference because the oil's taste will be obscured by the more aggressive flavours you should be adding.
A heaped teaspoon of smooshed garlic, or about six cloves of garlic that have been hit with something so as to have cast off their cloven form. Or don't bother. This doesn't actually seem to make a lot of difference to the end result.
A Whole Bunch Of Spices which you should find in a drawer near the sink, ideally in separate containers rather than just poured in there.
Some nice hot sauce and maybe some lemon juice. And some soy sauce. But none of those if you don't have them. Put some other things from your fridge in there instead of these.
Optional: some sort of lumps of fake meat stuff from a tin, with an ambiguous and unnerving name such as "Tender Pieces", or if you prefer, substitute some meat-substitute-substitute such as steak or mince.