Thai Basil Fried Rice
Thai Basil Fried Rice

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, thai basil fried rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Thai Basil Fried Rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Thai Basil Fried Rice is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have thai basil fried rice using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Thai Basil Fried Rice:
  1. Make ready 4 cups cooked short grain rice cooled
  2. Make ready 1 small onion chopped
  3. Take 3 gloves garlic chopped
  4. Make ready 1 inch ginger chopped
  5. Prepare 2 tablespoons neutral oil
  6. Make ready 1 tablespoon dark soy sauve
  7. Take 1 tablespoon regular soy sauce
  8. Prepare 1 tablespoon mirin
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon sake or Chinese cooking wine
  10. Get 2 teaspoons sesame oil
  11. Make ready 1 cup peas (frozen)
  12. Make ready 3 scallions sliced
  13. Make ready 1/2 cup fresh Thai basil chopped
  14. Get 1 tablespoon oil
  15. Take 3 eggs
  16. Get 1 teaspoon fish sauce

And don't skip the fish sauce, it smells strong in the bottle, but it blends in nicely with the other ingredients when it's all put together. Also, make sure you use chilled. So my Thai basil fried rice had to be with shrimp, but you can use any protein you prefer, it will all work! Pound garlic and thai cili together in a mortar and pestle.

Steps to make Thai Basil Fried Rice:
  1. Heat oil in wok or large pan over medium high heat
  2. Add onion, garlic, and ginger and sauté until fragrant
  3. Add rice and heat until the large chunks easily break apart
  4. Add soy sauces, mirin, sake/wine, and sesame oil and mix
  5. Stir fry for about five minutes to allow the rice to become crispy
  6. Add frozen peas, Thai basil, and 1/2 of the scallions
  7. Once peas defrost, remove from wok
  8. Rinse wok to remove any remaining rice. Add 1 tablespoon oil and heat over medium heat.
  9. Crack eggs into bowl and add fish sauce. Scramble with fork.
  10. Add eggs to wok and constantly stir until eggs are cooked through. Mix eggs into the rice
  11. To serve, portion rice into bowls and top with remaining scallions. Enjoy!

This way the natural oil form chili and garlic will be release and will make the fried rice more fragrance. Fried rice originated in China as a way to use up leftover cooked rice. Wherever fried rice is prepared in Asia, local cooks add regional ingredients and seasonings. This means Thai cooks mix in garlic, chili and basil with delicious results. Thai basil fried rice is a delicious preparation made by cooking rice along with basil leaves, assorted vegetables and various asian spices.

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