Crab Fried Rice
Crab fried rice delivers buckets of flavour despite its simplicity. This classic Thai comfort food meal is so easy to recreate at home.
- Prep time
- 5 min
- Cook time
- 10 min
- Yield
- 2 servings
- Difficulty
- HARD
Ingredients
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- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 shallot (or 1/2 small onion, diced)
- 3 cloves garlic
- 3 eggs (beaten)
- 350g/2 cups cooked Jasmine rice
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp white pepper
- 100g/3.5 oz crabmeat (cooked)
- 2 green onion
- 2-3 sprigs cilantro (coriander)
- 6 slices cucumber
- 2 wedges lime
Instructions
- 1
Heat the vegetable oil in a large pan or a wok, then add the diced shallot or onion and cook for 5 minutes over medium heat, add the garlic and cook for a few seconds longer. Pour in the beaten eggs and scramble them.
- 2
Then add the cooked rice, soy sauce, sugar and white pepper, turn the heat up to high and stir to combine. Let the rice cook for half a minute or so, then stir again. Continue for 3-5 minutes until the rice is heated through and evenly coated with the seasoning.
- 3
Add the crab and stir to combine, allow the crab to heat through, then add the sliced green onions and chopped cilantro and take off the heat. Serve with sliced cucumber and lime wedges.