Best Thai Chicken Fried Rice With Basil Kao Pad Krapao Recipes

PAD KRA PAO (PAD GAPRAO) CHICKEN STIR-FRY WITH HOLY BASIL

Steps:

• Pound Thai chilies into a fine paste.
• Add garlic and spur chilies and pound into a rough paste.
• Combine oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, black soy sauce, water and sugar; stir to dissolve the sugar.
• In a wok or a large saute pan, saute the garlic-chili paste in a little vegetable oil over medium high heat until the garlic starts to turn golden.
• Add chicken and toss until they're no longer in big clumps. Add the sauce and continue tossing until the chicken is almost done.
• Add onions and long beans; toss until the chicken is done.
• Remove from heat and stir in the holy basil.
• Taste and adjust seasoning as needed.

THAI CHICKEN FRIED RICE WITH BASIL - KAO PAD KRAPAO* RECIPE - (4.6/5)

Steps:

• 1 In a wok or large skillet, stir-fry garlic in oil until golden; then add chilies and chicken and stir-fry until chicken is cooked. 2 Add rice, sugar, fish sauce, and soy sauce, and stir-fry, mixing gently. 3 When well mixed, add shallots, basil leaves and cilantro; cook another minute or so, and serve. 4 If you desire, serve with lime wedges, chile sauce, fish sauce, or soy sauce at the table.

THAI CHICKEN FRIED RICE WITH BASIL - KAO PAD KRAPAO

Steps:

• In a wok or large skillet, stir-fry garlic in oil until golden; then add chilies and chicken and stir-fry until chicken is cooked.
• Add rice, sugar, fish sauce, and soy sauce, and stir-fry, mixing gently.
• When well mixed, add shallots, basil leaves and cilantro; cook another minute or so, and serve.
• If you desire, serve with lime wedges, chile sauce, fish sauce, or soy sauce at the table.

KAO PAD (THAI-STYLE FRIED RICE)

Steps:

• Choose and prepare vegetables. Select a combination with a variety of colors.
• In a wok, heat the oil and stir fry the ginger and garlic until golden.
• Remove them with a slotted spoon and save for later.
• In the same oil, stir-fry the vegetables until just cooked. Add the harder ones (like carrots) first, and the tender ones (like sprouts) last.
• Remove the vegetables from the wok and set aside.
• Add the rice to the wok and heat thoroughly.
• With your stirring spoon, make a hole in the center of the rice, down to the wok and put in the eggs.
• Stir until they are pretty well set before you mix them into the rice. The more you cook the eggs before stirring them into the rice, the drier the dish will be.
• Add the tomatoes, the reserved ginger and garlic and the stir-fried vegetables.
• Finally, mix in the chili sauce, soy sauce and lime juice.
• For serving, top each serving with thin slices of scallions. Put thin slices of lime on the side.

SPICY THAI BASIL CHICKEN (PAD KRAPOW GAI)

Steps:

• Whisk chicken broth, oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce, white sugar, and brown sugar together in a bowl until well blended.
• Heat large skillet over high heat. Drizzle in oil. Add chicken and stir fry until it loses its raw color, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in shallots, garlic, and sliced chilies. Continue cooking on high heat until some of the juices start to caramelize in the bottom of the pan, about 2 or 3 more minutes. Add about a tablespoon of the sauce mixture to the skillet; cook and stir until sauce begins to caramelize, about 1 minute.
• Pour in the rest of the sauce. Cook and stir until sauce has deglazed the bottom of the pan. Continue to cook until sauce glazes onto the meat, 1 or 2 more minutes. Remove from heat.
• Stir in basil. Cook and stir until basil is wilted, about 20 seconds. Serve with rice.

THAI FRIED RICE - KAO PAD

Steps:

• Heat 2 tbsp.oil in wok and stir-fry the eggs, scrambling them.
• Remove from wok and set aside.
• In same wok, heat remaining oil and fry onion and garlic until tender; add pork, salt, pepper, fish sauce, chilies, and ketchup.
• Stir-fry for 2-4 minutes, or until pork looks done.
• Add shrimp and crab and continue stir-frying for another 3 minutes; add egg and rice.
• Cook, stirring well, for another 2 minutes; fold in green onion and cilantro just before serving.

THAI SPICY BASIL FRIED RICE

Steps:

• Whisk together oyster sauce, fish sauce, soy sauce, and sugar. Set aside.
• Spray a wok or large frying pan with olive oil spray and heat over medium-high heat.
• Add the garlic and chili (or serrano) peppers and stir fry for 30 seconds.
• Add the red pepper and onion and stir fry until the onion is translucent. If using chicken or beef, add it with the the onion and red pepper. Cook until chicken is done, or beef is about medium.
• Push ingredients in the wok/pan aside and quickly scramble the egg.
• Add the oyster sauce mixture and stir everything together.
• Raise the heat to high and add the chilled rice. Stir until blended with the sauce and other ingredients, breaking up clumps of rice with the back of a spoon.
• Add more soy, oyster, or fish sauce, if necessary (or to taste).
• When everything is blended together and rice is hot, remove from heat and stir in the basil.
• Garnish with cilantro, if desired.