Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pineapple chicken fried rice. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pineapple chicken fried rice is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pineapple chicken fried rice is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
It's a gastronomic homerun that makes the most of leftover odds and ends while resulting in a dish worthy of multiple servings, rave reviews and a call home to Mom. This pineapple fried rice recipe was inspired by a meal at Sweet Basil in Norman, Oklahoma over the holidays. Thai-style sweet and spicy pineapple fried rice with red bell pepper, cashews and cilantro.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have pineapple chicken fried rice using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pineapple chicken fried rice:
- Prepare Main ingredients
- Prepare 200 g raw chicken breasts
- Get 60 g brown basmati rice(uncooked)
- Get 1 tsp turmeric
- Make ready 1 red bell pepper(diced)
- Make ready 50 g pineapple
- Take 1 tsp olive oil
- Make ready 1 garlic clove
- Prepare 10 g butter
- Prepare Sauce
- Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce(low sodium)
- Prepare 1 tsp fresh ginger or ginger paste
- Prepare 1 tsp sriracha sauce
- Take 3 tbsp water
- Get 1 tsp arrowroot starch
With the addition of pineapple, the regular chicken fried rice becomes so much more interesting, and delicious, because of the sweet tang of the pineapple. It also helps to make the fried rice tastes less greasy as every bite is bursting with the freshness of the pineapple. Pineapple fried rice is different from other fried rice because it is the only one cooked with fruits and curry powder. The sweetness of the diced pineapple provides a balance to the savory taste of shrimp and chicken.
Steps to make Pineapple chicken fried rice:
- Bring water to boil, then add rice, turmeric and ½ of olive oil. Reduce the heat to simmer, then cover and cook for about 30 minutes untill the rice is fully cooked and the water has been absorbed.
- Set a large non-stick skillet on medium-high heat. Once hot add 10g of butter and the chicken(cut into 2-3 cm chunks). Sear the chicken on the outside edges untill brown, then cook the chicken completely through, about 5-7 minutes. Then remove the chicken from the skillet.
- Reduce the heat to medium then add remaining ½ olive oil. Add the already minced garlic, then mix to flavor the oil, about a minute. Be careful not to burn the garlic.
- Toss in the bell pepper and cook for an additional minute.
- Increase the heat to medium-high and toss in the pineapple(cut into 1cm pieces). Stir everything together for about a minute, then add the rice and the chicken. Fold everything together.
- Lower the heat to medium-low. Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl. Move the mixture to one side of the skillet then pour in the sauce. As soon as it starts to bubble, immediately and continuously fold the rice mixture into the sauce, ensuring the rice is fully coated and saucy.
- Garnish with green onion and fresh cilantro if desired.
The addition of raisin and cashew nuts convince me that it will taste completely different. Here is another one bowl meal idea that is an easy chicken fried rice recipe. The golden sweet fresh pineapple in this dish pairs well with the salty savory. This fried rice recipe with pineapple, chicken, and prawns is inspired by Thai street food and is a quick lunch or dinner. Pineapple Fried Rice is of Thai origin, though there's iterations of it all around the world.
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