Basil Fried Rice : Chinese Recipe

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Basil is a kind of herb with small light green leaves related to the mint family. It therefore has a strong minty smell. The best rice to use for cooking fried rice is leftover rice that is kept overnight in a fridge.

Ingredients:

2 cups leftover rice
50 grams fresh shrimp, shelled and deveined
2 tbsp minced garlic
3 tsp finely chopped fresh red chillies
3/4 cup red, green, and yellow capsicum, mixed and cut into 1/2 inch squares
2 tbsp chopped onion
1 tbsp fish sauce
A pinch of sugar
A pinch of salt
1 tsp ground white pepper
2 tbsp oil
A handful of  torn sweet basil leaves


Method:

Heat a wok and add the oil and spread it around till it coats the surface evenly.

Add the garlic and chillies, then stir for about 10 seconds. Then add the capsicums, onion, and shrimp.

Add a pinch of salt toss around for another 30 seconds.

Now add the rice to the wok, crumbling any big sticky blocks with your hands to ensure they're all separate.

Toss the rice and keep stirring for another two minutes. Then add the sugar, white pepper, and fish sauce.

Stir the mixture around again for another minute. Then taste the rice to check saltiness. If it's less, add some more fish sauce.

Then throw in the basil leaves into the rice. Stir the rice for another minute, then take it off the heat and serve.



Credits to: Shiok

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Thai Basil Chicken Fried Rice : Thai Recipe

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This is a staple of Thai cooking. Adjust the spices to your own tastes for a really great use for leftover rice. This Thai Basil Chicken Fried Rice is fast and fairly easy to make, but requires constant stirring and quite spicy.

Ingredients:

4 cups cold "already cooked" jasmine rice
6 big cloves garlic (crushed)
2 to 4 Thai red and green chilies (crushed)
1/4 cup cooking oil
1 lb chicken meat (cut into bite sizes)
1/2 lb prawns (shelled)
3 tbs oyster sauce
3 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 red capsicum (julienne)
2 cups fresh sweet basil leaves


Methods:

First, heat the oil in a wok over high heat. Wait till the oil starts to smoke. Add crushed garlic and crushed chilies. Stir quickly (don’t let them burn)

Then immediately add sliced chicken meat and prawns. Stir and add oyster sauce, fish sauce,soy sauce and sugar. Stir until the chicken is cooked through.

Add already cooked rice. Stir quickly until sauces are blended with rice for a couple of minutes.

Stir in red capsicum and keep stirring for few seconds then add basil leaves. Turn the heat off.

Serve immediately with sliced cucumber.



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Garlic Fried Rice : Chinese Recipes

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This makes a quick and easy meal. It’s perfect for garlic lovers!

Ingredients:

2 cups cooked rice, cooled
2 tbsp frozen carrots
2 tbsp frozen peas
2 tbsp chopped spring onions
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 tbsp oil
1 tsp butter
2 tbsp ready fried crispy garlic chips
2 tbsp soy sauce
Salt and sugar to taste
A dash of ground black pepper


Method:

Heat oil and butter in a wok and fry peas and carrots for 2 minutes. Push aside and add in beaten egg, scramble until cooked.

Stir in rice and add salt,soy sauce and sugar to taste. Fry till all the ingredients are well combined. Add in the fried garlic crisps and add a dash of ground black pepper to taste.

Stir one last time and transfer everything to a serving bowl.

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Pattaya Fried Rice : Thai Recipe

Pattaya Fried Rice or known as Nasi Pattaya by many Malaysian is amongst the popular selection in Malay restaurants or stalls in Malaysia. The dish is simply chicken or prawn fried rice that covered or wrapped with omelet and served with chili sauce and chicken soup.


Ingredients:

4 cups of boiled rice
1 slice of chicken breast (cut into small pieces)
5 cloves of shallot (finely chopped)
3-4 cloves of garlic (finely chopped)
1 capsicum (cut into small pieces)
1 carrot (cut into small pieces)
3 eggs
Some cooking oil
Salt to taste


Method:

Step one (Fried Rice):
Heat the oil and fry shallots and garlic until fragrant. Then add chicken and continue frying about 2 minutes.

Add carrot and capsicum continues frying for about 3 minutes. Add one egg and stir well. Finally add rice and some salt. Continue to stir until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed.

Step two (Omelet Wrap):
Whisk 2 eggs with a bit of salt. Heat some oil into a frying pan. Add the whisked eggs to make omelet.

Once ready put a cup of fried rice at the center of the omelet and wrap it up.

Prawn Fried Rice

For this fried rice dish, it is important to use the freshest prawns.The prawns give the fried rice a nice seafood flavour and comes with a natural sweetness which cannot be substituted with the use of any form of seasoning.



Ingredients

* 3 rice bowls of cooked white rice
* 1 rice bowl measure of medium prawns (shelled and cut into smaller pieces)
* ½ rice bowl measure of carrots (diced small)
* ½ rice bowl measure of French beans (diced small)
* 3 cloves garlic (chopped finely)
* 4 shallots (sliced thinly)
* 3 large eggs
* 4 tablespoons cooking oil


Seasoning

* 2 teaspoons dark soy sauce
* 2 teaspoons light soy sauce
* 2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
* Salt and white pepper powder to taste



Method

Heat oil in wok on and fry shallots on medium heat till golden brown. Remove and set aside fried shallots.

Add garlic, carrots and French beans and stir well for a minute. Add prawns and stir well till prawns turn red. Push ingredients aside by making a well.

Add a tablespoon of oil in the center and break eggs into the oil. Once eggs are semi-cooked, add rice and push ingredients into it.

Stir evenly and press rice to separate grains from one another. Add seasoning. Fry the rice for about 3 minutes and until the seasoning is evenly distributed.

Dish out and garnish with fried shallots.

Pineapple Fried Rice : Thai Recipe

This dish is a nice change from your ordinary fried rice. A very popular dish at the Thai restaurant serve in a hollowed out pineapple shell. It not only looks great but tastes great too!


Ingredients:

2 tbsp oil
1 whole pineapple/ 1 can canned pineapple, drained
3 cups of rice, jasmine preferably
1 cup frozen mix vegetables/ whatever vegetables you desire
3 cloves garlic
1 small onion
3 red chili
2 tsp curry powder
1 tbs soy sauce
3 eggs
1/2 cup prawns or chicken fillet
2 tbs fish sauce(for vegetarians u can get vegetarian fish sauce if not just use soy sauce)
1/3 cup cashew nuts (optional)
Cracked pepper(optional)



Method:

1. Slice off one side of the pineapple to remove the skin (do no cut off the leaves). Carve out the fruit from inside the pineapple. Set carved pineapple aside.

2. Pound chili and garlic in a mortar and pestle to make a paste. If you don't own one just use your knife to flatten it.

3. Place oil in wok and turn heat on to medium-high. Add the chili paste and onion and saute until fragrant.

4. Add the vegetables, cashew and prawns and fry for about 1-2 minutes.

5. Add the rice in then fish sauce, soy sauce , curry powder and pepper. Add pineapple in after.

6. Make a hole in the middle of the rice and fry the eggs. Taste the rice, if its not salty enough add soy sauce or salt.

7. Serve in the carved out pineapple.

Kampung Fried Rice : Malaysian Recipe

Ingredients:

8 cups of cooked rice

3 cloves of garlic


4 red chillies

10 shallots

2 inches of belacan (1 spoonful shrimp paste)

Leftover fried fish

A handful of dry anchovies

Long beans, cut into small bite size

soy sauce

Salt to taste

1/4 cup of cooking oil


Methods:

1. Pound garlic, shallots, chillies, anchovies, fried fish and shrimp paste together.

2. Heat oil in wok. Throw in the pounded ingredients. Fry few minutes until fragrant.

3. Put in the long beans and fry for 2 minutes.

4. Put in the rice and 2 tablespoon of soy sauce. Mix well.

5. Salt to taste.

Serve.