Name: Thai Basil Fried Rice recipe by Shri Kripa at BetterButter
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: Small grain rice - 2 cups; Capsicum - 1; Carrot - 1; Cabbage - small piece; French beans - 8; Extra firm tofu - 200 grams; Oriental curry powder - 1 table spoon; Chilli sauce - 1 tea spoon; Soya sauce - 2 teaspoon; Vinegar - 1 table spoon; Chopped garlic - 1 table spoon; Chopped Thai red chillies - 2; Chopped spring onion greens - little; Thai basil - 8 leaves; Salt - as per taste; Pepper - as per taste; Oil - 3 table spoon

Ingredients Serving: 4

Small grain rice - 2 cups
Capsicum - 1
Carrot - 1
Cabbage - small piece
French beans - 8
Extra firm tofu - 200 grams
Oriental curry powder - 1 table spoon
Chilli sauce - 1 tea spoon
Soya sauce - 2 teaspoon
Vinegar - 1 table spoon
Chopped garlic - 1 table spoon
Chopped Thai red chillies - 2
Chopped spring onion greens - little
Thai basil - 8 leaves
Salt - as per taste
Pepper - as per taste
Oil - 3 table spoon

Instructions

To cook the rice, take one big vessel and fill it with 10 cups of water, 1 spoon of oil and a little salt. When it starts boiling, add in the washed and drained rice.
Cook this in a open vessel until it is done. It takes anywhere between 7 to 8 minutes. Once cooked, drain this rice in a colander and keep it aside for cooling.
Chop all the vegetables, chillies, garlic, spring onion and keep it aside. Make rectangle pieces of the tofu, marinate it with salt and pepper and keep it aside.
Take one bowl, mix in the masala powder, vinegar, soy sauce, chilli sauce and keep it ready.
Take one big and wide wok, add in 2 tsp of oil . Once it is hot, add in the marinated tofu and fry it a little. Then remove and keep aside.
In this same wok, pour in the remaining oil, when it is hot add in the garlic, chillies then add in the chopped veggies.
Fry this until the veggies are done. Then sprinkle salt, pepper, pour in the masala-vinegar paste which we have mixed earlier.
When it boils, add in the cooled rice. Check for seasoning, if needed add salt or pepper powder.
Garnish with torn basil leaves, chopped spring onion and pan fried tofu.

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