Easy Chicken Fried Rice

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Anyways, how about a quick chicken fried rice recipe? But first let me warn you, it is not an authentic one, it's just something you put together when you're into some Thai food, but don't feel like getting out of the house and they don't deliver, boo!

Ingredients:

• half of a chicken breast, thinly sliced;
• half of a bell pepper;
• a handful of fresh basil;
• a small carrot;
• a cup of jasmine rice;
• 2 tb. spoons soy sauce;
• 2 tb. spoons oyster sauce;
• 1 tb. spoon fish sauce;
• half a teaspoon brown sugar;
• 2 eggs;
• 1-2 cloves garlic;
• red pepper flakes or chili oil to taste.

Directions:

Let's start with boiling the rice, and letting it cool down. Although you can use rice that's a day or two old, it might be even better according to an article I read in the past, however, I personally can't tell the difference.
Next, cut your carrot and bell pepper, set aside.

In a cast iron skillet or wok heat your frying oil, add some chili oil to it to make your food hot or red hot pepper flakes inot it. I am using some chili oil I made over a year ago haha.

Place the chicken on the skillet or walk and fry on a medium heat until almost cooked. Add in the chopped carrot, bell pepper and garlic, stir in the eggs, one after the other, make sure nothing gets burnt or too soft, you gotta do this quick! In a small bowl combine soy sauce, brown sugar, oyster sauce and fish sauce, stir well, pour into the skillet/wok. Now dump your rice into it, stir a few times until the sauce is spread out well and add in the basil leaves.
DONE!
Take it off the heat and move into a big dish, so the vegetables don't very soft, they still have to be sort of crunchy.

Usually I eat mine with sriracha sauce and chili paste, if I am feeling like it I may even add some canned jalapenos in my plate, it may sound weird, but it is actually pretty good, especially if you have a cold beer around :) unfortunately, I didn't this time haha. Oh well.