Recipe: At Home Chicken Fried Brown Rice & Sweet Basil

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Chicken Fried Brown Rice & Sweet Basil. Heat the remaining tablespoon of oil in the same skillet over medium-high heat. Add the rice; cook and stir to heat through. Add chicken, red pepper, and green onion.

I love the way they taste, especially jasmine, and I'm always happy with the texture.

You can use a medium-grain, or even a short-grain rice, but I personally prefer the long grain for the fluffy texture that doesn't stick together when cooked.

Brown rice is easy to cook.

You can have Chicken Fried Brown Rice & Sweet Basil using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Chicken Fried Brown Rice & Sweet Basil

  1. You need of precooked chicken breasts.

  2. It’s of precooked brown rice.

  3. You need of fresh sweet basil sliced.

  4. Prepare of sliced carrots.

  5. Prepare of sliced green onions.

  6. Prepare of snow pea pods.

  7. It’s of sunflower coconut oil.

  8. It’s of eggs.

  9. You need of agave sweetener.

We have detailed instructions in our post on How to Make Perfect Brown Rice, either on the stove, or in any rice cooker.

If you are making brown rice fresh the same day, let the cooked rice cool completely before using it.

What Ingredients go into Chicken Fried Rice?

Brown rice - leftover rice from the day before works best.

Chicken Fried Brown Rice & Sweet Basil instructions

  1. Preheat wok w/ 3tbsp oil, of choice, on medium/low heat. Add chicken and vegetables. Let cook for about 4min..

  2. Wisk egg, and add sweetener.

  3. Move chicken and vegetables to sides of wok, add egg batter. Let egg firm..

  4. Once egg batter starts looking like the beginning of scramble eggs, add brown rice..

  5. Let cook for 5-8 minutes, stir to prevent rice from sticking..

  6. Enjoy!.

White rice will work great here too.

Toasted sesame oil - this oil is very strong and a little goes a long way.

Follow these two suggestions and there will be no clumpy rice.

I used brown rice cooked in chicken broth, which was so good I could have eaten just that alone.

In a medium skillet over medium heat, heat olive oil.