Thai Fried Rice with Pineapple and Chicken

Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 20 min
Servings: 6
Yield: 6 servings

Description

This pineapple fried rice with chicken is a Thai street food recipe for a quick, curry-flavored meal made with crisp bacon, eggs, and green onions.

Ingredients

3 slices bacon, diced
3 shallots, sliced
4 ounces chicken breast, cut into small cubes
4 teaspoons curry powder, divided
1 teaspoon vegetable oil, or as needed
3 egg yolks, beaten
3 cups cooked jasmine rice
1 red Thai bird chile pepper, finely chopped
2 tablespoons whole cilantro leaves
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 teaspoons fish sauce
1/2 teaspoon white sugar
4 ounces tiger prawns, peeled and deveined
1/4 cup chopped fresh pineapple
3 green onions, finely chopped

Directions

1 Place bacon in a wok or large skillet over medium-high heat; cook and stir until crisp, about 10 minutes. Remove bacon with a slotted spoon onto a paper towel-lined plate; set aside. Reserve bacon drippings in the wok.
2 Cook and stir shallots in bacon drippings over medium-high heat until fragrant and light brown, 1 to 2 minutes.
3 Stir chicken into shallots and cook, without stirring, until browned on one side, 45 seconds to 1 minute; stir. Continue cooking until chicken is browned, about 1 minute. Add 2 teaspoons curry powder; stir until chicken is coated.
4 Make a well in the center of chicken and pour oil into the center of the well; add egg yolks. Cook and stir egg yolks until set, 1 to 2 minutes. Add rice and stir, breaking up rice.
5 Mix chile pepper, cilantro, soy sauce, remaining 2 teaspoons curry powder, fish sauce, and sugar into rice mixture; add shrimp and cook until shrimp is cooked through and pink, about 2 minutes. Fold pineapple, green onions, and bacon into rice mixture.