Thai Pineapple Fried Rice:

Jasmine rice is very starchy n sticky to me! People who know me, knew this already…that I hate RICE! Yeah altogether! Totally!!

But sometimes I fix this kind of rice…when there are lots of veggies and fruits are thrown in…I indulge! Eating carbs for your breakfast actually fires up feel-good neuron-transmitters such as serotonin in your brain! This equips to handle stress better! So to avoid mental irritability during the day! Eat breakfast! If you hate carb’ like me…fix something like this. Well…on the other hand a fulfilling carb diet for your dinner….gives a nice night’s sleep! If you sleep better, your cravings go down, helps to maintain a healthy weight!!!

Well…after posting this article, it feels like after all…nothing wrong in eating sticky jasmine rice once in a while!!!

Ingredients:

Jasmine rice 1 cup
Pineapple 1 large
Light soy sauce 1 table spoon
Carrot 1 – diced
Beans 7-9 chopped roughly
Red Bell Peppers 1 sliced
Shrimps 10-15
Chicken cubed 1 small cup
Other Options:(tofu cubed, mushrooms sliced…)
Jalapenos 4 sliced
Ginger 2″ peeled, chopped & minced
Garlic 4 cloves peeled, chopped & minced
Brown sugar 1 spoon
Chili flakes 2-4 spoons
Chili paste 1 spoons
Toamto paste 1 spoon
Peanut Oil 1 cup.

To Garnish:

Cashew nuts fried few
Golden raisins few
Dessicated coconut 1 spoon
Green onions 1 bunch fienly chopped.

Method:

Cut pineapple along with its crown, vertically. Carefully dice the pulp and remove away.

Now make a nice pineapple shell…ready to serve the fried rice in it.

Make strong pineapple juice about 1 cup. set this aside.

To the remaining pulp, dice 1 cup of pineapple for fried rice.set this aside.

Reserve the ramining pulp for salad or other thai dishes.

Well…Now cook jasmine rice with little salt, peanut oil andpine apple juice. Once the riceis done, spread them in a wide tray and make them stiff and well seperated rice.

Meanwhile, stir-fry chicken and set aside.

Stir-fry shrimps as well and set them aside too.

Now stir-fry all the veggies and set them aside.

In a wide, heavy bottomed skillet, heat oil. Add minced ginger and garlic. Let the aroma fills the room.

Now add jalapenos, salt, sugar, chili and tomato paste to it. Make a quick stir…when it comes to silky oily color. Bringin the rice…remove all the lumps from it, if any.

Let the oil coat really well. Now toss back all the stir-fried chicken, shrimps, veggies and diced pineapple to it.

Fill this fried rice in a pineapple shell.

Now garnish them with cashew nuts, raisins, coconut and green onions.

Serve warm!