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This Thai Chicken Fried Rice Recipe is Worth the Effort

Thai food is known for its fresh and flavorful ingredients. Containing a variety of spices, herbs, vegetables, and sauces, this healthy cuisine is known for having a flavor all its own. Unique and delicious, Thai cuisine is a culinary art that features dishes containing at least a dozen ingredients.

Many years ago, a visit to a local Thai restaurant, The Emerald of Siam , sold my husband and I on the delicious taste of Thai cuisine. Recurring visits motivated us to try and recreate some of our favorite Thai entrées at home. With fresh ingredients being at the heart of such a tasty cuisine, this was an excellent way to use spicy flavors like Thai chiles growing in prolific abundance in our Richland, Washington backyard.

With rice being at the heart of Thai cuisine, an easy introduction to Thai cooking is a recipe for Thai Chicken Fried Rice featured below. This excellent recipe comes from my best friend, Lisa Samson, who lives just a phone call away in Eastern Washington. After being urged to try her recipe and finally doing so, I couldn’t believe the authentic Thai flavor of the fried rice created from the recipe below. Filled with fresh summer produce and flavorful spices, a bite of Thai Chicken Fried Rice brought back memories of mouth-watering Thai dishes eaten at The Emerald of Siam.

For most Thai people, making fried rice is like making a sandwich in the west. Once you chop and prep all the ingredients, fried rice is very quick and easy to prepare and takes just minutes to cook. However, in order to thoroughly incorporate the flavors of all the ingredients called for in the recipe, it is necessary to cook just one or two at a time so that all the flavors can be tasted in the resulting cuisine.

Since there is an order as to how ingredients are cooked, the Thai Chicken Fried Rice recipe below is separated into five steps. By prepping and setting aside ingredients at the beginning of the recipe, the Thai Chicken Fried Rice entrée can be prepared quickly and efficiently. In fact, Thai fried rice is one of those home-cooked meals that can be prepared and on the table in less than 30 minutes.

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