Thai Basil Fried Rice
Thai Basil Fried Rice

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, thai basil fried rice. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Thai Basil Fried Rice is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Thai Basil Fried Rice is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have thai basil fried rice using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

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

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!

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. 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.

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