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Thai Fried Brown Rice

January 11, 2017 by Christy Gurin (updated March 6, 2025) | 5 Comments

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Thai fried brown rice that’s loaded with veggies to lighten up without loosing any of the tasty flavor and spice that we all love and crave.

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Fried rice is one of my favorite Thai dishes, hands down. Between the basil, curry paste and general carb overload, this dish hits all the right spots for me. I’m trying to phase unhealthy takeout out of our lives though so this meal gets a makeover! This is the make at home version: Thai fried brown rice, absolutely loaded with veggies.

Thai fried brown rice that's loaded with veggies to lighten up without loosing any of the tasty flavor and spice that we all love and crave.

Thai fried brown rice that's loaded with veggies to lighten up without loosing any of the tasty flavor and spice that we all love and crave.

Either way, clean eating or not, I still crave flavor! There’s no stopping that. This fried brown rice recipe luckily has it all – the taste of your local Thai joint and the nutrition you need to stay on your A game.

As you can see in the step by step pictures above, this fried brown rice recipe is a one dish meal with a few easy steps. Make sure to chop everything up ahead of time because the cooking process goes fast. Soft, overcooked veggies are gross so make sure you’re prepared.

The other trick is using day old, dry rice. If your rice was cooked with too much water, its not going to work for this recipe. Be wary of that when you prep the rice ahead of time. Its got to be dry, the way takeout rice normally is on the second day. What do you think those restaurants do with their old rice? Exactly.

You can make fried rice in a regular pan but a wok really works best. Mine is a ghetto one from Ikea which I would NOT recommend. Its cheap and has almost burned through the bottom and I haven’t even used it very much. This wok is the one I’m lusting after. One day you will be mine fancy wok…

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Thai Fried Rice

Created by: Christy Gurin
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 30 minutes mins
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Thai fried brown rice that’s loaded with veggies to lighten up without loosing any of the tasty flavor and spice that we all love and crave.
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Ingredients
 

  • 2 Tbsp. coconut or peanut oil
  • 2 tsp. minced garlic
  • 1 tsp. minced ginger
  • 2 Tbsp. Thai red curry paste
  • 1 chicken breast, sliced into thin, small ¼ inch pieces
  • 1 red pepper, thinly sliced
  • 1 small onion, thinly sliced
  • ½ lb. mushrooms, sliced
  • 2 cups broccoli florets
  • 4 cups cooked long grain brown rice (use day- old, cold rice – it can’t be mushy!)
  • 2 Tbsp. fish sauce
  • 2 Tbsp. oyster sauce
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 cup diced pineapple
  • 1 cup cherry tomatoes
  • 2 Tbsp. lime juice
  • 1 cup loosely torn Thai basil leaves
  • ¼ cup chopped cilantro
  • 3 green onions sliced
  • 1 cup cucumber cut into ¼ inch thick quartered pieces

Instructions

  • Break up any rice clumps so that rice is separated into individual rice pieces. Heat oil in a wok over high heat.
  • Add garlic, ginger, chili paste and chicken. Cook, stirring occasionally for 2-3 minutes to brown chicken. Add red pepper and onion and cook for about 2 minutes. Add mushrooms and broccoli and cook 2-3 minutes longer until chicken is fully cooked.
  • Add rice and stir for about about 1 minute. Add fish sauce and oyster sauce and mix in.
  • Push rice to the edges and crack both eggs into the center, scrambling and breaking into pieces as the egg cooks (1 minute). 
  • Mix scrambled egg in with rice, add tomatoes and pineapple, and stir fry for 1-3 more minutes until rice starts to turn toasty and all ingredients are mixed well.
  • Remove from heat and stir in lime juice, basil, green onion, cilantro, and cucumber.

Notes

To make gluten free, make sure to use gluten-free curry paste, fish sauce and oyster sauce.

Nutrition

Calories: 312kcal | Carbohydrates: 42g | Protein: 16g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 5g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Sodium: 250mg | Potassium: 634mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 6g | Vitamin A: 2130IU | Vitamin C: 72.4mg | Calcium: 70mg | Iron: 2.1mg

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    Comments & Reviews

  1. Peggy says

    March 26, 2021

    Looking forward to trying this but wondering how much fish sauce to use. The ingredients say 2 but 2 what?

    Reply
    • Christy says

      April 13, 2021

      Oh yikes. So glad you caught that! I switched to using a different recipe card awhile back and it must not have copied that over. Just corrected the recipe to say 2 Tablespoons. Hope you try and enjoy this one! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Javsan Mitchell says

    July 25, 2018

    Just amazing!!!!! Used tofu instead of chicken and it came out great!

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    • Christy says

      July 30, 2018

      Ooh, can’t wait to try it with tofu too now! Yum!

      Reply

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