How to Cook Thai Basil Fried Rice

 

Ingredients

• 150 grams chicken breast meat
• 1 teaspoon light soy sauce
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 bird's eye chillies
• 1 tablespoon Thai chilli paste 
  (I used 1/2 tablespoon shrimp sauce & a little lime juice)
• 1/2 teaspoon chilli flakes
• 1/2 onion, sliced
• 1 cup left-over rice
• 1 tablespoon ground basil leaves
• 1 egg
• vegetable or sunflower oil for frying

For Stir-fry Sauce

• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon light soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon fish sauce
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• 1 tablespoon of water

Instructions

1. Cut the chicken breast meat into thin slices about 1.5 inches in length. 
   
   
   
2. Marinate the chicken meat for 30 minutes with light soy sauce and salt. 

   

   
   
3. Stir-fry the chicken with some oil in the pan untill it turns lightly golden.

   
   

   

   
   
4. Cut off the stem of the bird's eye chillies. Remove the seeds. 
5. Grind the garlic and chilli together, using a food processor. 

   

   

   
   

To fry an egg, add sufficient oil into the wok enough to cover it. Heat the oil to medium heat. Crack it and place it gently at the centre of the oil. Let it fry undisturbed untill the edges bubble up and turns crispy. 

Frying the rice

1. Heat the oil in the pan. Add the leftover rice and use the spatula to break up all the lumps. Gradually increase the heat from low-medium to medium-high. Continue stir-frying it untill they jump and pop in the pan. 
   
   
   
2. Add the stir-fry sauce gradually and continue to stir-fry it at medium high untill the rice absorbs all the seasonings. 

   

   

   
   
3. Heat some oil to saute the ground garlic and chilli. Add some chilli flakes and Thai chilli paste to the pan when it turns aromatic. 

   

   

   
   
4. Return the cooked rice to the pan. Stir-fry it over medium-high untill the chilli paste is incorporated with the rice thoroughly. 

   

   

   
   
5. Add in the cut onion and chicken to the rice and mix it all well together. 

   

   
   
6. Finally, add in ground basil leaves and stir-fry it together over high heat. 

   

   
   
7. Remove the pan from heat. Serve the dish with the fried egg and garnish it with chopped spring onion.