Pineapple chicken fried rice. It's a gastronomic homerun that makes the most of leftover odds and ends while resulting in a dish worthy of multiple servings, rave reviews and a call home to Mom. Here is another one bowl meal idea that is an easy chicken fried rice recipe. The golden sweet fresh pineapple in this dish pairs well with the salty savory.
Diced the chicken into small pieces and added it towards the end when the rice gets added.
If you're a fried rice fan, you'll absolutely love this scrumptious Thai version of chicken fried rice.
What we enjoy most about this dish is that every bite is different: sometimes you get a sweet-savory combination of pineapple and chicken, at other times you taste the spicy flavor of the rice together.
You can cook Pineapple chicken fried rice using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Pineapple chicken fried rice
- It's of Main ingredients.
- You need 200 g of raw chicken breasts.
- You need 60 g of brown basmati rice(uncooked).
- It's 1 tsp of turmeric.
- You need 1 of red bell pepper(diced).
- Prepare 50 g of pineapple.
- Prepare 1 tsp of olive oil.
- It's 1 of garlic clove.
- You need 10 g of butter.
- Prepare of Sauce.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of soy sauce(low sodium).
- Prepare 1 tsp of fresh ginger or ginger paste.
- It's 1 tsp of sriracha sauce.
- You need 3 tbsp of water.
- You need 1 tsp of arrowroot starch.
This fried rice recipe with pineapple, chicken, and prawns is inspired by Thai street food and is a quick lunch or dinner. This pineapple fried rice is filled with chicken, bacon, veggies and pineapple, all in a savory sauce. Ever wanted to make the perfect Pineapple Chicken Fried Rice? How about we add turmeric to it!
Pineapple chicken fried rice instructions
- Bring water to boil, then add rice, turmeric and ½ of olive oil. Reduce the heat to simmer, then cover and cook for about 30 minutes untill the rice is fully cooked and the water has been absorbed..
- Set a large non-stick skillet on medium-high heat. Once hot add 10g of butter and the chicken(cut into 2-3 cm chunks). Sear the chicken on the outside edges untill brown, then cook the chicken completely through, about 5-7 minutes. Then remove the chicken from the skillet..
- Reduce the heat to medium then add remaining ½ olive oil. Add the already minced garlic, then mix to flavor the oil, about a minute. Be careful not to burn the garlic..
- Toss in the bell pepper and cook for an additional minute..
- Increase the heat to medium-high and toss in the pineapple(cut into 1cm pieces). Stir everything together for about a minute, then add the rice and the chicken. Fold everything together..
- Lower the heat to medium-low. Mix the ingredients for the sauce in a bowl. Move the mixture to one side of the skillet then pour in the sauce. As soon as it starts to bubble, immediately and continuously fold the rice mixture into the sauce, ensuring the rice is fully coated and saucy..
- Garnish with green onion and fresh cilantro if desired..
Pineapple fried rice is different from other fried rice because it is the only one cooked with fruits and curry powder. The sweetness of the diced pineapple provides a balance to the savory taste of shrimp and chicken. The addition of raisin and cashew nuts convince me that it will taste completely different. With the addition of pineapple, the regular chicken fried rice becomes so much more interesting, and delicious, because of the sweet tang of the pineapple. It also helps to make the fried rice tastes less greasy as every bite is bursting with the freshness of the pineapple.
