Mixed Seafood Coconut Fried Rice
In this delicious mixed seafood coconut fried rice recipe I'll be showing how to cook coconut fried rice with a seafood medley featuring a mix of fresh crab meat, shrimp, calamari and fresh homemade coconut milk!
- Prep time
- 20 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1.5 cups Jasmine Rice
- 2 cups coconut milk (fresh if possible or canned if not)
- 8 oz crab meat
- 270 g / 0.5 lb large deveined and shelled shrimp
- 450 g/ 1 lb cleaned calamari
- 3 shallots/ 1 red onion sliced
- 4 stalks of green onions
- 1 small (or half of a large orange bell pepper, sliced (you may substitute with any color bell pepper you choose))
- 2 tsp shrimp bouillon
- 3 kaffir lime leaves
- 1 small handful of clove basil (aka scent leaves/ Thai basil)
- 2 tbsp coconut oil
- 1 tsp white pepper
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- 1
In a medium size pot, on medium heat, boil the jasmine rice in the coconut milk with a teaspoon of salt and a stick of lemon grass. The rice should be just short of being done before it is taken off the heat.
- 2
Set the boiled rice aside and allow to cool completely before moving on to the other steps.
- 3
In a wok or a large pan, heat 1 table spoon of coconut oil and saute in the onions, shrimp and calamari.
- 4
Once the calamari and shrimp are just cooked (about 5 minutes), take the out of the wok or pan and set aside.
- 5
Add in another table soon of coconut oil, turn the heat up to high, the toss in the bell pepper slices and the cooked and cooled jasmine rice (take out the lemon grass stalk and discard at this stage).
- 6
Stir fry the rice and peppers over high heat for about 5 minutes, then add in the bullion and white pepper and continue to stir fry for another 10 minutes.
- 7
Toss in the cooked shrimp, calamari and shallots, crab meat, green onions, basil
- 8
and lime leaf. Stir and taste for salt.
- 9
Adjust the seasoning to your taste if needed, the continue to stir fry for no more than two more minutes still on high heat.
- 10
Take the rice of the heat and serve hot.