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Tom Yum Fried Rice - your favorite Thai Tom Yum Flavor in a fried rice dish. The most amazing fried rice with exotic flavors that you can't stop eating.
Do you always have leftover steamed rice at home? If you are like me, my fridge always has a bowl or a box of leftover steamed white rice, be it from the night before or the extras brought back from restaurants.
On week days, one of my favorite lunches to make is fried rice, all sorts of fried rice because it’s the easiest way to use up the leftover steamed white rice, while making a filling and tasty lunch in a matter of 15 minutes!
My week day is always very hectic. I wake up in the morning and my endless chores begin: prepping breakfast for my son, sending him to school, working on my blog, developing new recipes, training my intern on various tasks on Rasa Malaysia, shopping and driving around like a mad woman, and the list goes on and on.
I never get to check off my to-do list and every day the list just keeps (miraculously) getting longer.
Anyway, I digress.
Other than regular Chinese fried rice,, pineapple fried rice, kimchi fried rice, crab fried rice, Indonesian fried rice, another favorite of mine is Tom Yum fried rice.
Before I go on, let me just say that I don’t think there is Tom Yum fried rice available in Thailand, but this is my version of the popular Thai soup, but in the form of fried rice!
The taste structure is similar to Thai Tom Yum soup: spicy, savory, rich, and a little tartness from the squirts of lime juice. I really enjoy this Tom Yum fried rice.
A couple of years ago, I shared this recipe with InSing.com (rebranded as HungryGoWhere.com now), but last week, I made this Tom Yum fried rice for my intern and I, so I decided to share this Tom Yum fried rice recipe here with you.
Again, I used the Pantai brand Thai roasted chili paste or “Nam Prik Pao” as the spice base for this dish.
If you are in the United States, you can get this product as Asian stores. If you are in Asia, for example: Malaysia or Singapore, I am sure you can find similar products from markets or super markets.
It might be not the same brand. Please take note that Nam Prik Pao is not the same as “Tom Yum Paste” but you absolutely can’t find it, you can certainly use Tom Yum Paste as a substitute.
This quick and easy Tom Yum fried rice is a delicious one-dish meal. If you like your tom yum fried rice extra spicy, serve it with some bird’s eyes chilies (Thai chilies) on the side, otherwise this recipe is mouthwatering as is. Enjoy!
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This recipe is only 448 calories per serving.
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Tom Yum Fried Rice
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2 cloves garlic, finely minced
- 2 oz (60g) chicken meat, cut into thin pieces
- 6 shrimp, shelled and deveined
- 6 canned straw mushrooms
- 3 tablespoons frozen peas and carrots
- 1 tablespoon Thai roasted chili paste , or "Nam Prik Pao"
- 2 cups leftover steamed white rice, loosen up
- 2 teaspoons fish sauce, or to taste
- lime juice
Instructions
- Heat a little oil in a wok and cook the beaten eggs into an omelet. Use a spatula to break the omelet into small pieces and set aside. Heat the remaining oil in the wok, then add the garlic and stir-fry until lightly browned and aromatic.
- Add the chicken, shrimp, and straw mushrooms, and stir-fry continuously until the chicken and shrimp turn opaque on the surface. Then, add the frozen peas and carrots. Stir in the Thai roasted chili paste and do a few quick stirs before adding the rice.
- Add the fish sauce and egg to the wok, stirring continuously to combine all the ingredients. Remove the tom yum fried rice from the wok and add a couple of splashes of lime juice. Serve immediately with some bird's-eye chilies if you want extra heat.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
This recipe looks great ! I can’t wait to try it for a Friday or Saturday treat !!
I’ve been looking for tomyum fried rice recipes for the longest time ever and this is by far the best one I’ve come across! can’t wait to try it out :-) thank you and lots of love from singapore!
They DO have Tom Yum fried rice in Thailand! Just not as common as other fried rice options. It was one of my absolute favorite vegetarian dishes and I’ve been meaning to recreate it ever since. Thanks for the recipe!
Good to know just never see them anywhere when I was in BKK.
Bee, I made your recipe last evening. My husband and I agreed that the rice had great flavor, but we found it dry. Did anyone else have this experience? Do you have a suggestion for me, or should I try adding pineapple to the mix (as one cook commented)?
Hi Newkiwi, I think fried rice is supposed to be dry and not wet. However, if you like a little more moisture in your rice then yes you can add more oil or pineapple would enhance the flavor.
Fried Rice is my ultimate go-to as well when I am super busy. I need to get a new jar of tom yum paste for on the go lunches. Some pineapple pieces would be delicious in this!
I love fish sauce in my fried rice and the Thai roasted chili paste makes it special. Thanks for recipe Bee.
Sorry Bee, I should have known you wouldn’t miss a trick. I reread the recipe and sure enough you did add it at after the roasted chili paste.
But I do have another question. I have never used fish sauce. I have used oyster sauce and was wondering if that would work or if the two sauces are significantly different. I’ll have to buy a bottle just so I know what it tastes like.
Yes you can use oyster sauce but use to taste as the flavor is different and not exactly the same amount.
Bee,
The recipe sounds great and I can’t wait to try it. The only ingredient that I didn’t see added was the rice. I could guess but wanted to make sure I did it in accord with your recipe. At what step do you add the rice into the Wok?
Thanks,
At the end of the second paragraph ;)
Thank you, Bee, for the nice recipe. Have a Great Week!
This looks delicious!!!