Thai Basil Fried Rice

Thai Basil Fried Rice

Ingredients:
2 cups of cooked cold rice (long grain)
¼ cup carrot cut into sticks
¼ cup sliced beans
50 grms prawns shelled and deveined ( optional)
1 tbs garlic minced
2 fresh red chillies finely chopped
½ a cup of green and yellow capsicum cut into ½ inch square
1 onion cut into ½ inch square
2 tbs light soya sauce or fish sauce ( more or less to taste)
1 tsp white pepper
2 pinches of sugar
1 hand ful sweet basil leaves, torn by hand
2 tbs oil

Method:
Heat a wok with oil and add the garlic.
Now add the onion, and the cut chillies.
Add the prawns, white pepper, sugar and stir fry for about 30 seconds.
Now add the carrots and beans, and the soy sauce.
Stir for a minute and add the rice.
Toss the rice and veggies well, so that the rice grains are properly coated with oil. Taste the rice for salt. Add more sauce if nedded.
Now you add the basil leaves and stir the rice for a minute.
You will get a nice aroma of the basil.
Take off the heat and serve.

Note: You can omit the prawns and fish sauce and make it
Into a vegetarian dish.
You can add any vege of your choice.