Prawns & Shredded Turkey Thai fried rice

This is one very easy dish to make and the ingredients are readily available in local markets and grocery stores.

For this dish, we are going to need the following ingredients:

Basmati rice (This can be found in most food super markets)

Prawns and Turkey (Found in most frozen food markets)

Vegetable/canola Oil

Oyster sauce

Cloves of Garlic

Ginger

Onions

Red pepper

Yellow pepper

Green pepper

Carrots

Fresh green peas

Curry

Seasoning

Salt

Truthfully, my number one rule to cooking is to always learn to improvise. Try never to get boxed up by the availability of cooking ingredients and learn to always play around with alternatives.

I am going to be serving this with some stir fried shredded beef.

First thing you would want to do is get everything ready before you start cooking because the whole process takes between 20 & 30mins.

So with a sharp knife, shred your turkey and keep it aside. Dice your garlic, ginger and carrots; Chop your onions, green pepper and yellow pepper. Also clean your prawns and keep that to aside.

In a pot, boil your basmati rice with the diced carrots and peas for about 10mins. I am boiling the carrots and peas with the rice because I do not like very hard vegetables in rice dishes. Basmati rice cook very fast and also, you want to watch the quantity of water you add when you boil the rice so your rice doesn’t get soggy. With a spoon, taste the rice; If it is slightly soft, put off the flame and drain the rice. Then spread on a tray so it doesn’t clog together.

In your Wok or frying pan, put in 3 table spoon full of vegetable oil and allow to get very hot. Then add your chopped onions, diced garlic and ginger then stir. Add the shredded turkey moving the frying pan/wok back and forth. At this stage, the frying pan/wok may flame up; do not panic…. It’s part of the “ëffizy” **wink**. Then add your prawns and reduce the flame of your burner to the minimum level and just stir. Add the red and yellow pepper, oyster sauce and curry and keep stirring.  Then add the green pepper and stir for about 20 seconds.

 

Then add you boiled basmati rice to the contents in the frying pan/wok (remember the burner should be on minimum level); Stir and add seasoning and salt (remember with salt you can always add but you cannot take away so be careful not to over salt). Serve with stir fried beef.

This dish will make a good Sunday treat for the family and is so easy to make.

Try it out and lets have your verdict.

Feel free to post all your questions and suggestions in the comment box below and I will get back.