The cuisine of any country has its own method of cooking fried rice . So in Thailand you can easily try such a dish, because there they sell it at every step. Rice in Thai is called "kau pad", in the literal translation it sounds like "fried rice." There are such clarifying names: “kau pad kai” - that is, rice with an egg, “kau pad gai” - with chicken. “Kau pad mu” - rice with meat, with shrimp - “kau pad gung”. In addition, in one recipe you can combine an egg, chicken, shrimp. This article will tell about all this.
Some secrets to choosing ingredients
The main component of the dish is Thai fried rice, as the name implies, of course, 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 boil and does not crumble during cooking.
In second place among the ingredients are seafood. As for shrimp, it is best to take already peeled. The most ordinary shrimp will do, it’s not necessary to spend money on king or tiger. But this is a matter of taste. You can also buy a sea cocktail, which may include mussels, shrimps, squids, and other seafood.
As for oil, it is recommended to use refined. If you prefer olive oil, then keep in mind that it can change the taste of rice. So the choice is yours.
Seasonings can be taken absolutely any. Use the ones your family likes. Some people think that curry must be present in rice dishes . But you can also use special-purpose mixtures for pilaf or rice. Fortunately, such goodness is dark and dark in our time.
Seafood Rice Recipe
Fried rice, the recipes of which are different, is very easy to prepare. In this case, we will use the following ingredients:
- 250 g of rice;
- two bell peppers;
- onions (1 pc.);
- two eggs;
- squid (1 pc.);
- king prawns (8 pcs.);
- 200 g mussels;
- one lime;
- soy sauce;
- salt;
- vegetable oil.
Boil rice in salted water. Dice the bell 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. We add them to squid with mussels, sprinkle with the juice of a fourth of lime. Fry the eggs in a pan so that it turns out 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. Serve the dish with soy sauce and lime.
Recipe "Kau Pad Gung"
To cook rice in Thai, the recipe of which we will now outline, you will need:
- sunflower oil - three tbsp. l .;
- large cloves of garlic - a few pieces;
- large shrimp - 7-8 pcs.;
- two eggs;
- rice - one and a half glasses;
- tomato ketchup - 2.5 tbsp. l .;
- sugar - one tsp;
- soy sauce - one and a half Art. l .;
- greens.
Thai fried rice with shrimp will be cooked like this. First, cook the grits. Next, take a pan with high walls, heat the oil in it, fry chopped garlic until golden. Add 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 may get mild poisoning. And removing it is very simple. We tear off the shrimp's head, clean the scales, make a small incision along the ridge, remove the intestines (thin black stripe).
Once the shrimp is fried, remove them and garlic from the pan. Break eggs into a pan. Tear the resulting omelet into a thin piece with a wooden spatula, add 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. Place shrimp on top and decorate with greens.
Kau Pad with Egg, Chicken, Shrimp
Thai rice can be cooked with shrimp and chicken. We offer you to familiarize yourself with this recipe. You will need the following ingredients:
- one red pepper (sweet);
- one chili pepper (red);
- one egg;
- one tbsp. l olive oil;
- two onions;
- three cloves of garlic;
- 3 tbsp. l chicken broth (boiled water);
- 3 tbsp. l soya sauce;
- one tbsp. l curry;
- one tsp Sahara;
- 100 g cashew nuts;
- 500 g of boiled rice;
- 150 g 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 rings, Bulgarian red pepper, chopped into chunks, chili pepper (red), garlic. Fry for 1-2 minutes over very high heat.
At the same time, we are interfering diligently. Beat the egg lightly and pour it into the vegetables. We fry a minute. Add soy sauce, chicken broth, sugar, curry. Mix. Chop the chicken and add to the seasoned vegetables. Fry for five minutes. Pour cashews, mix well. Add rice without lumps, pineapple, shrimp. Mix. Fry for five minutes, remove from the stove, add chopped green onions. We mix everything. You can use green onions for decoration. We eat rice in Thai and mentally enjoy a trip to Thailand.
The recipe for kau pad kai
If you want to cook rice in Thai, but finances do not allow you to buy shrimp, which in our time is still not cheap, then 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, herbs, vegetable oil.
Heat the oil in a pan. Put the egg and garlic. Fry a little, so that the garlic gives the egg its smell. Add rice, mix thoroughly until a uniform mixture, fry. Season with sugar and soy sauce. Mix well. Decorate with herbs. Served with fresh vegetables and green onions.
Post scriptum
Thais, serving rice (recipes can be completely different), in almost every restaurant they offer Thai sauce, which has a sweet and sour taste. Its peculiarity is that it gives the dishes an unusual taste, piquancy and pungency. If you want to surprise your household or guests, then you can prepare such a sauce yourself or buy it in Asian food stores, in the supermarket.