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.
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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2 comments:
lovely fried rice recipe~~ unique to me as i have never added basil leaves to my fried rice~~ thanks, sho9uld give it a try then~ =)
I love this receipe - also it'll give me a reason to buy some fish sauce, yikes! Hi, I'm here from the Tuesday blog hop and I'm your newest follower. I hope you'll come visit and follow me too since I'd like to be friends. You have a very colorful and interesting blog here and I appreciate your asian recipe posted. See you soon and thanks!
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