The kitchen of any country has its own methodcooking rice fried. Here and in Thailand, you can easily try this dish, because there they sell it at every turn. In Thai rice is called “Kau Pad”, literally translated as “fried rice”. There are such clarifying names: "Kau Pad Kai" - that is, rice with egg, "Kau Pad Guy" - with chicken. “Kau Pad Mu” - rice with meat, with shrimps - “Kaw Pad Goong”. In addition, in one recipe you can combine egg, chicken, shrimp. All this will tell this article.
Some Secrets to Selecting Ingredients
The main components of dishes fried ricein Thai, this is understandable by name, of course, is rice. You can take both long grain and round grain. There is no fundamental difference, so you can follow your taste. The main thing is that the rice does not fall apart and crumble while cooking.
In second place among the ingredients areseafood. As for shrimp, it is best to take already peeled. The most common shrimp will do, not necessarily spending money on royal or tiger shrimps. But this is a matter of taste. You can also buy sea cocktail, which may include mussels, shrimp, squid, and other seafood.
As for the oil, it is recommended to use refined. If you prefer olive oil, then note that it can change the taste of rice. So the choice is yours.
Seasoning can be taken absolutely any.Use the ones your family likes. Some believe that curry must be present in rice dishes. But you can use special-purpose mixes for pilaf or rice. Fortunately, such goodness in our time is darkness.
Seafood rice recipe
Fried rice, the recipes of which are various, is very easy to prepare. In this case, we will use the following ingredients:
- 250 grams of rice;
- two bell peppers;
- onions (1 pc.);
- two eggs;
- squid (1 pc.);
- king prawns (8 pieces);
- 200 g mussels;
- one lime;
- soy sauce;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Boil rice in salted water.Dice Bulgarian pepper and onion, fry them for 2-3 minutes in oil. We cut the squid rings, fry for 1-2 minutes in sunflower oil, add the mussels and fry for another three minutes. Boil the shrimp, clean, without removing the tails. Add them to calamari with mussels, sprinkle the juice of the fourth part of lime. Fry the eggs in a pan so that you get the so-called "talker".
Fry boiled rice in vegetable oil until dry. Add seafood, vegetables and eggs to it, fry for another 2-3 minutes. Served with soy sauce and lime.
Kau Pad Goong Recipe
To cook rice in Thai, the recipe of which we now present, will need:
- sunflower oil - three tbsp. l .;
- large cloves of garlic - a few;
- large shrimp - 7-8;
- two eggs;
- rice - one and a half glasses;
- tomato ketchup - 2.5 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - one tsp;
- soy sauce - one and a half tbsp. l .;
- greenery.
Thai fried rice with shrimp will cookSo. For a start, cook the cereal. Next, take a frying pan with high walls, heat the oil in it, fry the chopped garlic until golden brown. Add the peeled shrimp. There is one very important nuance. If large specimens are used, it is extremely important to remove the intestines from them. Otherwise, you can get a mild poisoning. And it's very easy to remove. We tear off the shrimp head, clean the scales, make a small incision along the ridge, remove the intestines (thin black stripe).
As soon as the shrimps are fried, remove them andgarlic from the pan. Break eggs into the pan. We turn the resulting omelette with a wooden spatula into thin pieces, add the already boiled rice, mix well. Now add sugar, ketchup, soy sauce. Mix everything and keep for two minutes on fire. Put the rice on the dish. From above we place shrimps and we decorate with greens.
"Kau pad" with egg, chicken, shrimp
Thai style rice with egg can be cooked together with shrimps and chicken. It is with this recipe that we propose to read. The following ingredients will be needed:
- one red pepper (sweet);
- one chili pepper (red);
- one egg;
- one article l olive oil;
- two onions;
- three cloves of garlic;
- 3 tbsp. l chicken broth (boiled water);
- 3 tbsp. l soy sauce;
- one article l curry;
- one tsp Sahara;
- 100 g cashew nuts;
- 500 g cooked rice;
- 150 grams of pineapple;
- 200 g boiled shrimp (peeled);
- two bunches of onions (green);
- 300 g chicken fillet.
Heat olive oil in a pan.Add chopped onion, Bulgarian red pepper, chopped into cubes, chili pepper (red), garlic. Fry all 1-2 minutes on very high heat.
Kau Pad Kai Recipe
If you want to cook rice in Thai, butfinances do not allow to buy shrimp, which in our time is still not cheap, you can cook it from those products that are always in the house. For example, from:
- one cup of boiled rice;
- one chicken egg;
- 1 tsp. fresh chopped garlic;
- half tsp Sahara;
- 1 tbsp. l soy sauce;
- salt, greens, vegetable oil.
Heat the oil in the pan.Put the egg and garlic. Fry a little so that the garlic gives the egg its smell. Add the rice, carefully stir until a uniform mixture, fry. Dressed with sugar and soy sauce. Stir well. Decorate with greens. Can be served with fresh vegetables and green onions.
Post scriptum
Thais serving rice (recipes can be absolutelydifferent), almost every restaurant offers Thai sauce, which has a sweet and sour taste. Its peculiarity is that it gives dishes an extraordinary taste, piquancy and spiciness. If you want to surprise your household or guests, then you can prepare this sauce yourself or buy it in the shops of Asian products in the supermarket.
