
Thai Chili Lemongrass Grilled Shrimp w Sweet Basil Lime Fried Rice
If you're a fan of Thia cooking you'll love this Thia chili lemongrass shrimp with basil lime fried rice. That's a mouth full but you'll enjoy every bite of fresh herbs, lemongrass, peppers, and juicy shrimp. Enjoy
Prep Time 40 minutes mins
Cook Time 10 minutes mins
Servings: 4
Course: Main Course, Side Dish
Cuisine: Asian Fusion, Thai
Ingredients
- 1 lb Extra Large Shrimp
- 2 cups cooked rice I used Jasmine Rice
- Shrimp Marinade
- ¼ cup fish sauce oyster sauce if fish sauce is unavailable
- Juice of 2 limes
- 1 Tbsp Chili Garlic Paste sambar oelek or Sriracha
- 1 stalk Lemongrass (bruised with rolling pin a cut into 1 In pieces.
- 1 red sweet pepper diced
- 2 Serrano peppers seeded and diced
- 20 fresh basil leaves chopped
- 1 Tbsp Olive Oil
- ¼ cup sugar
- 4 cloves garlic minced
For The Rice
- 20 Sweet Basil leaves
- 1 ear of corn kernels cut from cob or equivalent frozen or canned
- 1 Tbsp Chili Garlic Paste
- 1 pkg white mushrooms chopped optional
- 2 limes
- 3 shallots diced
- 4 scallions thinly sliced
- 5-6 Garlic cloves minced
- 2 red or green jalapeños diced
- 2 Tbsp fish sauce
- 3 Tbsp oyster sauce
- ½ red bell pepper diced
- 1 Tbsp fresh cilantro chopped
Method
- Cook rice.
- Clean, peel, and de-vein shrimp.
- Whisk together fish sauce, lime juice, and sugar until dissolved.
- Combine chili garlic paste, Lemongrass, Jalapeño, Serrano, chopped basil and garlic.
- Pour marinade over shrimp, set aside and let marinate at least 30 minutes (the longer the better).
- Heat grill or grill pan on medium high heat and grill Shrimp about 2 minutes per side. Remove from heat.
- In a wok or large pan heat oil.
- Add shallots, garlic, scallions, jalapeños, corn, bell peppers, mushrooms, and 1/2 the basil. Saute for a couple of minutes.
- Add fish sauce, oyster sauce, and chili garlic paste. Saute another 5 minutes or so.
- Add cooked rice and combine well.
- Just before serving add remaining basil and juice of 1/2 a lime.
- Serve Shrimp over fried rice.
Garnish with fresh cilantro, lime wedges and the juice of remaining 1/2 lime. Oh Yes!
Video
Notes
Links
Thia kitchen fish sauce - https://amzn.to/38jGqMs
Chili paste - https://amzn.to/3NyqxAO
Lemongrass - https://amzn.to/3af0lMZ
Oyster sauce - https://amzn.to/3MKeWhZEnjoy/TasteDis






