Numerous tourists are brought from Thailand notjust a tan, a lot of great pictures and joyful impressions, but also love for the local cuisine adapted for Europeans, of course, since the Thais themselves love everything very spicy. Unfortunately, not all dishes of Southeast Asian cuisine can be reproduced in Europe. Exotic lemon grass, tamarind paste and the like are required. But Khao Pad Kai - Thai fried rice with chicken - is an exception to this rule. All that is required for this dish can be found in any European supermarket.
It is necessary to add that in Thai cuisine the main dishand side dishes often vary. Fried rice can be not only with chicken, but also with pork, beef, shrimp, seafood or fish. Accordingly, then the words “Nua”, “Mu”, “Goong”, “Talay” and “Pla” will be added to the name “Khao Pad”. On the other hand, Thai-style chicken - “Kai Pad Med Mamuang” - is no less tasty with boiled rice, as well as with special Thai noodles “Pad Thai”. However, this is not all. Even if you decide to cook chicken with fried rice, then in this case there is no one template. You can add pineapple, vegetables, cashews, honey, curry, oyster sauce or ketchup. This dish is extremely popular in Thailand, so every family has their own recipe. Do not be afraid to experiment and you.
Thai style chicken with vegetables
A pound of chicken fillet wash, drytowel, cut into thin strips and leave to marinate in soy sauce for half an hour. Meanwhile, shred the onion in half rings, two Bulgarian peppers in thin strips, and cut the carrot into cubes. Three slices of garlic skip through the press. Strain the chicken, but do not pour out the soy sauce. Ideally, this dish requires a special wok pan. She has a thin bottom in the middle and thicker - at the edges. However, you can cook chicken on a regular griddle. Pour vegetable oil into it, ignite it and spread it out. After ten minutes of roasting without a lid, we place the meat on a plate, and in its place we place the vegetables. We fry them literally for five minutes without a lid, after which we return the chicken, pour in a gram of fifty dry wine and three tablespoons of liquid honey. A little starch is diluted in a small amount of soy sauce, poured into a frying pan. The fire under it is maximized and cook another five minutes.
Another recipe with vegetables
According to this prescription, tasty chickenin Thai will be ready in forty minutes. Marinate meat is not necessary. Just fry it in butter until white and lay it on a plate. Chopped vegetables (onion, carrot and pepper), fry. In a bowl, mix four spoons of soy sauce with flour. Add honey, a clove of garlic passed through a press, a pinch of black pepper. Also add two spoons of curry to the sauce. Pour the vegetables with this liquid, put them on the pan and chicken. Stew everything for a quarter of an hour. Separately, in a double boiler, prepare the Jasmine rice. If desired, it can be fried. We put in pialki, put the main dish on top.
Cooking authentic
If you are not afraid of difficulties or are you inthe moment you are in Southeast Asia, you can cook the “Thai-style chicken” dish according to the rules. You will need two spoons of red curry paste, the same amount of fish or oyster sauce and vegetable oil. Also stock up with sorghum stalks (Lemon Grass). Start cooking. Dilute curry with a quarter cup of water and oil. Pour into wok and heat up. Add half a kilo of skinless chicken breast cut into cubes, mix, pour in fish sauce, fry over high heat and transfer to the edge of the frying pan, sprinkle with chopped lemongrass. In the center of the wok pour two pre-loose eggs. Fry for one minute, cut into strips, mix with chicken. Also add two glasses of boiled rice variety "Jasmine". Actively stir, so as not to burn. Separately, you can serve hot or sweet-sour sauce.
Thai style chicken with pineapples
Mix flour and starch in a plate, roll inthis breaded sliced poultry breast. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the meat until golden color. Add a small piece of shabby ginger and canned pineapples, separated from the syrup. Next, squeeze two cloves of garlic through a press into the pan and pour in two spoons of tomato paste. Add finely sliced chilli. Now it remains only to pour pineapple juice into a frying pan, cover and simmer for 20 minutes. This dish goes well with both boiled and fried rice.
"Kai Pad Med Mamuang"
In translation, this means "chicken with cashews."In Thai, it should also be with a fair amount of hot chili peppers, but for Europeans tender stomachs, prepare the dish without this last ingredient. Breast cleanse the skin, cut into long strips, breaded in flour. Sweet pepper, 2-3 cloves of garlic, green onion and shallot feathers are ground. Fry the chicken in vegetable oil until done, put it on a napkin to stack the fat. In place of the meat, place the vegetables, fry for 3 minutes. Add 100 g of large-whipped roasted cashews. Now came the turn of the sauces: a spoonful of fish, twice the size of oyster and tomato. Sprinkle the contents of the pan with sugar to taste. Stir and add chicken. After a minute, turn off and serve with boiled rice. This is the most successful side dish to such a dish.
Fried Rice with Basil and Chicken
It is not so difficult.Cooking rice in a double boiler - it should make two cups. As always, Thai-style chicken is thin strips of skinless and boneless fillets. For this dish we need a spoon of basil paste. We fry it on a small fire for one minute. After that add chicken and cook for seven minutes. After this time, put green peas and boiled rice. Stir. Fill with two tablespoons of fish sauce, sprinkle with a small amount of sugar. In another skillet, fry two tablespoons of minced shallots and a few cloves of garlic. Sprinkle these spices already taken from the heat of rice. We decorate with fresh cucumber and fried egg.
