Thai-style fried rice with prawns

Fried rice (or khao pad) is basic Thai comfort food – simple but wonderful. In Thailand, you’ll find it in almost every restaurant and at every single food stall. Quick, easy and wonderful flavours perfect for a mid week supper. I used prawns but you can easily add more vegetables to keep it vegetarian or you can use beef strips, pork or chicken - really whatever you fancy. 

Ingredients
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 teaspoon chopped garlic
400g prawns, peeled
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 teaspoons nam pla (Thai fish sauce)
2 tablespoons water
Pinch of ground white pepper
2 carrots, sliced diagonally
100g button mushrooms, sliced
1 onion, sliced
4 spring onions, sliced
550g cooked basmati rice
Juice of 1 lime
Sliced spring onion, to garnish

1. Heat the oil in a wok set over a high heat.
2. When smoking hot, add the garlic and stir-fry for a few seconds until fragrant.
3. Next, add the shrimp or prawns. Keep stirring, then pour in the soy sauce, oyster sauce and fish sauce and season with the pepper.
4. Add the carrot, mushrooms, onion and spring onions and stir-fry for another 2 minutes.
5. When everything else is cooked just right, add the cooked rice and stir-fry for 1 last minute, just to heat the rice through.
6. Squeeze over some lime juice and serve immediately, garnished with spring onion slices.