Thai rice with seafood

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

The cuisine of any country has its own method of cooking fried rice. Here in Thailand, you can easily try such a dish, because they sell it at every step. Rice in Thai is called "kau pad", in 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 egg, chicken, shrimp. This article will tell about all this.

Some secrets of choosing ingredients

The main component of the Thai fried rice dish, as the name implies, 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 boil soft and does not crumble during cooking.

Second place among the ingredients is seafood. As for shrimp, it is best to take already peeled ones. The most common shrimp will do, it is not necessary to spend money on king or tiger shrimp. But this is a matter of taste. You can also buy a sea cocktail, which may include mussels, shrimp, andsquid, and other seafood.

As for oil, it is recommended to use refined oil. If you prefer olive oil, then keep in mind that it can change the taste of rice. So the choice is yours.

Spices 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, in our time, darkness is so good.

Seafood Rice Recipe

Fried rice, which comes in a variety of recipes, is very easy to prepare. In this case, we will use the following ingredients:

• 250g rice;
• two bell peppers;
• onion (1 pc.);
• two eggs;
• squid (1 pc.);
• king prawns (8pcs);
• 200g mussels;
• one lime;
• soy sauce;
• s alt;
• vegetable oil.

Boil rice in s alted water. We cut the bell pepper and onion into cubes, fry them for 2-3 minutes in oil. We cut squid rings, fry for 1-2 minutes in sunflower oil, add mussels and fry for another three minutes. Boil the shrimp, clean without removing the tails. We add them to the squid with mussels, sprinkle with the juice of the fourth part of the lime. Fry the eggs in a frying pan so that the so-called “talker” is obtained.

Fry the boiled rice in vegetable oil until dry. Add seafood, vegetables and eggs to it, moreFry for 2-3 minutes. Serve with soy sauce and lime.

Kow pad goong recipe

To cook Thai rice, the recipe of which we will now present, you will need:

• sunflower oil - three tbsp. l.;
• large cloves of garlic - a few pieces;
• large shrimp - 7-8 pieces;
• 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.;
• greens.

Thai fried rice with shrimp will cook like this. First, let's boil the cereal. Next, take a frying pan with high walls, heat the oil in it, fry the chopped garlic until golden brown. Add cleaned shrimp. There is one very important nuance. If large specimens are used, then it is extremely important to remove the intestines from them. Otherwise, you may get mild poisoning. And it's very easy to remove it. We tear off the head of the shrimp, clean the scales, make a small incision along the ridge, remove the intestines (thin black stripe).

As soon as the shrimp are fried, remove them and garlic from the pan. Break the eggs into the pan. We tear the resulting omelet with a wooden spatula into thin pieces, add the already boiled rice, mix well. Now add sugar, ketchup, soy sauce. Mix everything and keep on fire for two minutes. Put the rice on a dish. Place shrimp on top and decorate with herbs.

Kow pad with egg, chicken, shrimp

Thai egg rice can be cooked withshrimp and chicken. It is with this recipe that we offer you to familiarize yourself. You will need the following ingredients:

• one red pepper (sweet);
• one chili pepper (red);
• one egg;
• one st. l. olive oil;
• two onions;
• three cloves of garlic;
• 3 tbsp. l. chicken broth (boiled water);
• 3 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
• one tbsp. l. curry;
• one tsp. sugar;
• 100g cashew nuts;
• 500g cooked rice;
• 150g pineapple;
• 200 g boiled shrimp (peeled);
• two bunches of onions (green);
• 300 g chicken fillet.

Heat the olive oil in a frying pan. Add chopped onion rings, Bulgarian red pepper, cut into cubes, chili pepper (red), garlic. Fry everything for 1-2 minutes over very high heat.

At the same time, we are diligently interfering. Lightly beat the egg and add it to the vegetables. We fry for a minute. Add soy sauce, chicken broth, sugar, curry. We mix. Cut the chicken fillet and add to the already seasoned vegetables. We fry for five minutes. Add cashews, mix well. Add rice without lumps, pineapple, shrimp. We 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 Thai rice and mentally enjoy the trip to Thailand.

Cow Pad Kai Recipe

If you want to cook Thai rice, but finances do not allow you to buyshrimp, 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 minced garlic;
• half tsp sugar;
• 1 tbsp l. soy sauce;
• s alt, herbs, vegetable oil.

Heat the oil in a frying pan. Put the egg and garlic. Fry a little so that the garlic gives the egg its smell. Add rice, mix thoroughly until evenly mixed, fry. Season with sugar and soy sauce. Mix well. We decorate with greenery. Can be 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 spiciness. If you want to surprise your family or guests, then you can make this sauce yourself or buy it in Asian grocery stores, in a supermarket.