Thai Basil Fried Rice

thaibasilfriedrice

Thai food is one of our favorite cuisines. Of course, after Indian food! I love the flavors in Thai cuisine – the coconut milk, fresh herbs and spices. Whenever we go to Thai restaurants, fried rice is one thing I love to order. Unlike the Chinese fried rice, Thai fried rice is packed full of lovely flavors and doesn’t really need any side dish to go with it.

Today’s recipe is a Thai style spicy fried rice with loads of veggies and basil leaves. I adapted the recipe from here and tweaked a bit to suit our taste buds. I prefer to use cold rice for fried rice always, otherwise freshly cooked rice can sometimes turn bit mushy. You can add any vegetables you got in your hand. If you have leftover rice and prepped all your veggies, this fried rice can be prepared in 15-20 minutes. I love to serve with fresh cucumber slices to balance out all the spice. Off to the recipe!

thaibasilfriedrice

Thai Basil Fried Rice

Servings 3 – 4
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 cup jasmine rice / short grain rice
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 2 garlic finely chopped
  • ½ inch ginger grated
  • 1 red chilly finely chopped
  • 1 medium onion sliced
  • ½ red capsicum bell pepper
  • ½ yellow capsicum bell pepper
  • 1 cup broccoli florets
  • 1 small carrot cut into matchsticks
  • 8-10 green beans cut into 1 ½ long pieces
  • 10-12 mushrooms sliced
  • 3 tsp sambal paste / red chilly paste
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • ½ tsp sugar
  • ½ cup packed basil leaves roughly chopped
  • Salt to taste

Instructions

  • Wash the rice well and cook the rice until soft and grains are separated. Spread on a plate and let it cool completely.
  • In a large wok, heat oil and add garlic, ginger and red chilly. Fry for 30 seconds. Then add onion and fry for 3-4 minutes.
  • Add all the vegetables and fry in medium-high heat for 4-5 minutes. Add the sambal paste, soy sauce, sugar and fry for 2-3 minutes.
  • Add the cooked rice, salt and toss everything well until combined. Add basil leaves and cook for another 1-2 minutes.

Notes

  • If you prefer less spice, add only 1 tsp of chilly paste or sambal.
  • You can add other vegetables like zucchini, baby corn, sugar snap peas etc.
  • To get non sticky rice, once the rice is cooked, cool it and refrigerate for at least an hour.
  • You can scramble eggs and add to the rice at the end.
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Thai

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  1. Yummy flavourful rice!! very colorful too 🙂

  2. Looks yum! lovely flavourful rice

  3. Looks awesome,rice with all those veggies and basil leaves

  4. Hey Sona. How have you bee? Hope you had a great Deepavali.Loved this recipe. Will try sometime. Btw did you make your own Sambal or was it store bought?

    1. Sorry for the late reply. I used store bought sambal. Instead of sambal paste, you can use red chilli paste or sriracha sauce.

    2. Sorry for the late reply. I used store bought sambal. Instead of sambal paste, you can use red chilli paste or sriracha sauce.

  5. Colorful n beautiful photograph….. yummy fried rice ……!!

  6. Such a delicious platter!

  7. looks too good,perfect one pot meal 🙂

  8. looks colorful and flavourful with the touch of basil

  9. Looks like a healthy and colorful rice..

  10. Flavours are awesome..veggies have given nice color for the rice..yum

  11. Delicious fried rice.. i too loved Thai food..

  12. sounds so yumm and flavourful…love that pic of the veggies…perfect

  13. Riot of flavors there! Very nice…

  14. aah thats so colorful…

  15. Hi, Looks very delicious!!

  16. This rice dish looks amazing and delicioius. I'm intrigued by sambal paste which I've not heard of before!

  17. very colourful and healthy looking rice. Nice dish to prepare on a Sunday.

  18. Wow this fried rice looks so tasty. I am bookmarking this one will try soon and let you know. Can I use red chilli sauce instead of sambal paste?

  19. Flavorful and delicious fried rice. The whole platter looks yummy.

  20. Fried rice looks so delicious and colorful.. hralthy too with all the veggies.

  21. Looks all colourful and yum.

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