DISH RESEARCH · Rice dish
Khao Pad
Nagi Maehashi’s selected Thai fried rice stir-fries cooked cold jasmine rice with prepared small shrimp, eggs, onion, garlic and staged scallion portions. Her fish-sauce, oyster-sauce and sugar option seasons it, with optional coriander, tomato and cucumber at serving.
About Khao Pad
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Maehashi’s selected Thai fried rice uses cooked jasmine rice with small prepared shrimp, garlic, onion, scallions and egg. It takes her second sauce option: fish sauce, oyster sauce and sugar together.
The rice is already cooked and cold before frying, helping its grains stay separate. Vegetable oil heats in a wok, then garlic and onion cook briefly before the shrimp and white scallion portions are added.
The ingredients are pushed aside so the lightly beaten eggs can scramble in the open space. The rice and selected sauce mixture then join the wok.
The green scallion portions are added partway through the final stir-fry. The rice is tossed until the grains are coated in sauce, keeping those scallions part of the same original batch.
The finished rice is served immediately, with optional coriander above and tomato wedges and cucumber slices alongside. Maehashi offers three separate sauce combinations in her recipe; this version keeps the fish-and-oyster sauce combination distinct.
Ingredients in Khao Pad
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- Jasmine Ricebase
- Eggbinder
- Onionseasoning
- Green oniongarnish
- Chickenprotein
- Porkprotein
- Shrimpprotein
- Cucumbergarnish
- Garlicother
- Vegetable Oilother
- Sugarother
- Soy Sauceother
- Fish sauceother
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
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- Thailand
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- Thai