This Thai Fried Rice with Shrimp is quick and easy to make, ready to be served on the table in 15 minutes. Full of Thai flavour and easily customisable recipe.
Beside Chinese fried rice, I love Thai Fried rice the second. It is as easy as Chinese fried rice, and the taste is quite similar as well. The difference between these two easy fried rice is in the sauce. The main ingredients in Thai fried rice is the fish sauce.
It takes quite a while for me to get used with Fish sauce. If you cook quite often with fish sauce, you might notice that the smell of fish sauce, is kinda of smelly. It is pretty strong. I didn’t like it that much, but it makes quite a big difference in Thai fried rice.
The good new is that the combination of Fish sauce, soy sauce, and black pepper in making these fried rice, will reduce the strong smell of Thai fried rice. Don’t worry if you don’t like fish sauce like me as well, this fried rice doesn’t smell at all.
I tasted this Thai fried rice the first time when I came to Sydney. Dydy like to eat fried Rice in the Thai restaurant that we used to visit. Personally, I love pineapple fried rice more, and I never even taste Thai Fried rice before until Dydy told me about it. Who eat fried rice when dining in Thai restaurant? I am too busy checking out different curry recipes, and other menus to order. And Dydy, too simply, just want fried rice. When I asked him why is he just looking at fried rice menus, instead of those delicious curry. He simply just replied, you will choose the curry anyways, so I will just order fried rice to eat together with curries. That makes so much sense that two people can’t fight over what curries to eat anyways, and he let me choose instead.
Surprisingly, Thai fried rice doesn’t taste that bad, and it is quite similar to Chinese Fried Rice. Therefore, nowadays, I like to switch between Chinese and Thai Fried Rice now and then, especially when I’m not feeling like cooking a big fancy meal.
Once I tried this Thai Fried rice, I didn’t fancy Pineapple Fried rice that much anymore. This basic Thai fried rice is much more easier, and yummier than Pineapple Fried Rice. Might not be yummier than Pineapple fried rice, and for sure easier and quicker.
This fried rice is also easily customisable, add any proteins and veggies you love. Most of the time, I make this Thai fried rice and Chinese fried rice while cleaning out my fridge. I added my leftovers carrot and shrimp, and get these easy Fried rice on the table in less than 15 minutes. If you haven’t saw my post about quinoa fried rice, it is another easy quick fried rice that is much more healthier with quinoa.
- 100g shrimp
- 1 carrot, cut into small cube
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups cooked rice
- 1 onions, chopped finely
- 1 garlic, chopped finely
- ½ tablespoon fish sauce
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon chilli powder (optional)
- 2 tablespoon oil
- salt to taste
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a pan, pan fried carrot until slightly brown and carrot is cooked through.
- Set aside in a plate.
- Add another tablespoon oil in a pan, add onion, and garlic until flavoursome.
- Add prawn, and continue frying until prawns are cooked.
- Add carrot back to the pan, and add fish sauce, soy sauce, black pepper, chilli powder, and mix until all combined.
- Add cooked rice and mix until combined.
- Make a hole in the middle, and crack 2 eggs in the hole.
- Gently mix the eggs so that the egg yolk mix with the white yolk. (If you want to skip this, gently beat the egg before pouring in the hole)
- When egg is almost cook, mix the rice and egg together until well combined.
- Check for salt seasonings and thai fried rice is ready to be served.