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Thai Fried Rice Recipe (Khao Pad) Print E-mail

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About The Recipe

In Thai we call this dish Khao Pad. Khao means rice, and Pad means to fry. Rice is the main export product of Thailand, and has a history of cultivation going back thousands of years. The word for meal in Thai is Gin Khao which literally means eat rice.

Fried Rice is very easy and fast to make, this dish is considered fast food in Thailand and is always an option when you want to make something quick, easy and good.

Everyone makes fried rice a bit differently, so feel free to experiment with different ingredients that you have in your fridge. This recipe uses chicken, but you can substitute pork, shrimp, or tofu. You can also add vegetables such as carrots and broccoli. Experiment with what you like. There’s even a variety in Thailand called American Fried Rice that's make with ketchup!

Recipe Info.

  • For: 1-2
  • Preparation time: 10 minutes
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes

Utensils
  • Wok
  • Spatula

Ingredients
  • 2 cups of cooked rice
  • 1 small chicken breast
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • 3 tablespoons of oil
  • 2 tablespoons of soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon of black soy sauce
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 green onions


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Preparation
  • Cook rice
  • Chop garlic
  • Chop green onion
  • Slice chicken into 1 inch pieces
  • Beat egg

Cooking
  • Turn the stove to medium heat
  • Add oil into the wok
  • When the oil is hot add the garlic
  • Add chicken
  • When chicken cooked add rice, and stir about 1 minute
  • Add soy sauce and black soy sauce, stir to mix the rice and sauce together about 1 minute
  • Add egg and stir until egg is cooked
  • Add green onion and stir

Serve
  • Garnish with cucumber and lime.
 

Comments  

 
0 #23 KERVIN 2012-11-25 02:15
how long does it take for the chicken breast to cook?
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0 #22 Brit 2012-11-03 15:38
Quoting Sooner:
I would love to find a recipe for the two items in honor of my mother. She grew up in the 20's and 30's, was farmer's daughter and farm wife, and had never eaten anything as delightful as the Pork and Lettuce Soup. Any help finding this recipe would make my day.

Thank you.


I found a link for a pork and lettuce soup recipe; maybe this helps? http://www.thairecipevideos.com/content/view/46/112/
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-1 #21 Sooner 2012-09-26 19:58
Please help. In 1967-68, in the middle of Kansas,at Pratt Junior College, I was fortunate enough to have a roommate from Thailand. We called her Id, and she had twin cousins, Surapong and Surapon that cooked for us all the time. They made a lettuce and pork soup my mother,now deceased, absolutely loved. They also made a rice dish, they called Pad Thai, with Shrimp, Green Onions an Garlic. For them to find the ingredients in this little town, was amazing. It also had a red tint to the rice, but was not real spicy. I would love to find a recipe for the two items in honor of my mother. She grew up in the 20's and 30's, was farmer's daughter and farm wife, and had never eaten anything as delightful as the Pork and Lettuce Soup. Any help finding this recipe would make my day.

Thank you.
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0 #20 Beth 2012-08-23 22:23
I love that sweet flavor Thai fried rice has... so far I haven't been able to recreate this. What ingredient makes it sweet? I want REAL THAI fried rice!
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0 #19 Norman Heminover 2012-08-13 18:11
I know what you mean, I was north @ Nakhon Phanom (NKP) The flavor is from the rice beattle juice, which we (GI's) called the rice bug. They use to squeeze out the juice of many rice beetles to arrive at that unique flavor. To bad the beetles aren't available in the statesQuoting thudman:
Quoting Kenneth Beamer:
I spent time from 1968-69 in Takhli Thailand, and they had these food carts that came around and served khao pad, it had the best taste. I have tried to find the receipe, nothing I have tried has the taste. Could it be a local receipe? Can you help?

I also spent time at Takhli and remember the Khao Pad was called Meng da Khao Pad (made with the rice beetle) rather than Guy Khao Pad (chicken). This may explain the unique flavor. It was excellent and I also am unable to reproduce it.


It was the rice beetle (rice bug). The Thai's would squeeze the juice from them and add to the Khao Pad for the flavor. It was great.
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0 #18 thudman 2012-07-09 22:41
Quoting Kenneth Beamer:
I spent time from 1968-69 in Takhli Thailand, and they had these food carts that came around and served khao pad, it had the best taste. I have tried to find the receipe, nothing I have tried has the taste. Could it be a local receipe? Can you help?

I also spent time at Takhli and remember the Khao Pad was called Meng da Khao Pad (made with the rice beetle) rather than Guy Khao Pad (chicken). This may explain the unique flavor. It was excellent and I also am unable to reproduce it.
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-2 #17 ohmu 2012-01-16 21:41
This is a delicous food. I try this at home it delicous:-)
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+1 #16 jack 2011-12-06 00:42
thank you so much for the wonderful videos which explain very well the process to make real Thai dishes.
You are very good at this!
We hope you keep adding new tasty dishes to the list of wonderful meals!
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+2 #15 laurent 2011-11-23 12:03
Hi !
i wanted to say thank you ! Because i've been living in thailand for a while, tried to reproduce from various websites the real khao pad as i liked to enjoy it back when i lived in bangkok.... but I always ended disappointed.
And today for the first time, really i managed to replicate one.
Readers, be confident, this IS the real thai friend rice :)
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-1 #14 Kenneth Beamer 2011-10-03 21:58
I spent time from 1968-69 in Takhli Thailand, and they had these food carts that came around and served khao pad, it had the best taste. I have tried to find the receipe, nothing I have tried has the taste. Could it be a local receipe? Can you help?
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