Thai Fried Rice
Author: Dana
Recipe type: Main
Cuisine: Thailand
- 2 cups cooked rice (I used brown basmati, jasmine would be traditional) - using cold rice from the day before is best
- 2 cups cooked rice (I used brown basmati, jasmine would be traditional) - using cold rice from the day before is best
- 2 eggs
- 2 eggs
- 1 teaspoons fish sauce
- 1 teaspoons fish sauce
- 1 cloves minced garlic
- 1 cloves minced garlic
- 2 green onions
- 2 green onions
- pinch ground pepper
- pinch ground pepper
- 1 lime
- 1 lime
- 1 chicken breast chopped
- 1 chicken breast chopped
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 2 teaspoons soy sauce
- 1 thinly sliced tomato
- 1 thinly sliced tomato
- 3 tablespoon cooking oil
- Prep all your ingredients before you start.
- Heat oil in a large pan or wok on high heat.
- Add garlic and stir then add meat if uncooked and continue to stir.
- When the meat is cooked, add the rice. Break up any clumps and coat with the oil. If you are using cooked meat, add it now.
- Stir in the fish sauce and soy sauce.
- Add the white parts of the green onion and the tomato slices.
- Push the rice mixture to the side of the pan and turn down the heat.
- Cook the scrambled eggs on the open side of the pan.
- Once the eggs are dry, break them up and mix them in with the rice.
- Remove the pan from heat. Top the rice or individual bowls of rice with fresh lime juice, pepper and green onions.
- It is often served with cucumber slices, tomato slices, lime, chili fish sauce, and cilantro.
Adapted from Thai Table's Thai Fried Rice - http://www.thaitable.com/thai/recipe/fried-rice
Recipe by Talking in ALL CAPS at https://talkinginallcaps.com/2014/04/thai-fried-rice.html
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