Tom Yum Fried Rice

Tom Yum Fried Rice combines the tantalizing spicy, savory, tangy and sweet flavors you love in tom yum soup with fried rice! Juicy jumbo shrimp, fragrant aromatics, veggies, rice and fresh herbs get tossed in a zingy flavor-packed tom yum stir-fry sauce in this quick and easy weeknight dinner!

If you love the flavors of tom yum soup, try my Tom Yum Noodle Soup and crowd-pleasing Creamy Tom Yum Pasta next.

If you love Thai tom yum soup and easy weeknight fried rice dishes, you are going to LOVE this Tom Yum Fried Rice! It has all the hot, sour, salty and slightly sweet flavors you love in tom yum soup and is ready in 35 minutes!

Thanks to using store-bought instant tom yum paste, you don’t need several Thai aromatics to infuse this fried rice with all those tantalizing tom yum flavors.

We have here:

• Seared, sweet and juicy jumbo shrimp (prawns).
• Fragrant aromatics like garlic, chilies and makrut lime leaves.
• Refreshing veggies like crisp baby corn, sweet cherry tomatoes and leafy Chinese broccoli.
• A quick and easy fried rice sauce made with store-bought instant tom yum paste and roasted Thai chili paste to deliver the signature savory, tangy, spicy and sweet flavors!
• Fluffy Thai jasmine rice.
• Fresh herbs like coriander and spring onion.

Top off your plate with a fried egg to finish and you have yourself a Thai restaurant quality easy and healthy fried rice meal at home that’s better than taskeout! 

While I’ve used shrimp, you can switch up the protein and make it with chicken, crab meat, squid, pork, beef or tofu, etc. On the veggies front, this fried rice dish is flexible and pretty much anything that needs using up in your crisper drawer can be tossed in!