| Thai Fried Rice
Posted: 6/29/2009 12:55:22 AM | Fried rice is an easy and filling dish - great for a bachelor gentleman. You just have to remember to cook the rice the night before.
Ingredients:
4 c. cooked rice
oil
2 eggs
1 carrot - diced
1/2 c. frozen peas
4 scallions - minced
1/2 c. leftover meat
salt or soy sauce
Steps:
1. Heat a wok or large skillet over high heat.
2. Add a little oil and wait a few moments for it to heat up.
(if you like a small pieces of pork /or chicken/ or shrimp you can add after oil heat up, then stir fried it till its weldone. thai people put a ground garlics in to the hot oil about 2sec before meat to hide the meat smell - for me i like to put a square pcs of tomatoes and any vegetables that i can find from the fridhe.. in this section )
3. Break the eggs into the wok and mix quickly to scramble.
4. When the egg is well-set, remove it and chop it into bite-size pieces or strips.
5. Wipe out the wok and add a little more oil. Wait for it to heat.
6. If the rice is clumpy, break it up with your hands so that each grain is separate.
7. Add the cold rice to the wok. Move the rice quickly around the hot pan by putting your spoon or spatula under the rice and turning it over. (This is the basic stir-frying technique.)
8. After a minute or so, add the diced carrots and move them about the pan with the rice.
9. After 3 minutes, add the frozen peas and stir-fry.
10. After 2 minutes, add the scallions, egg and meat, if using.
11. Season the rice with salt or soy sauce once the ingredients are well-mixed. Cook another minute or until everything is heated through.
12. Remove from heat and serve.
Tips:
The amount of oil you use is up to you. You need only a tablespoon or so to keep the rice from sticking.
You can put anything you want in fried rice: leftover vegetables, stir-fry or anything that seems interesting. Try fried rice with ham and eggs for breakfast.
Traditionally, fried rice is seasoned with salt instead of soy sauce, because soy sauce turns the rice brown. Whichever you choose, be conservative when you first add it. You can always add more, but you can\'t take too much back.
Try a few drops of sesame oil in the egg before you cook it.
Try some minced garlic and ginger in the oil before you add the rice.
If your wok is large, you can cook the egg with everything else: After the rice and other ingredients are heated, push it to the sides of the wok so there\'s an empty space in the bottom. Crack the eggs into the space and cook. When the eggs are set, stir everything together to break up the eggs.
Some people like ketchup on their fried rice.
Warnings:
Don\'t use hot rice, or you\'ll have a gloppy mess. Cooling the rice makes the grains separate
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Posted: 6/30/2009 10:10:46 AM | or you can cheat with fresh cooked rice
use some chopsticks to fluff up the rice in a bowl
put in an egg, and keep whisking it till each grain is coated
it stops them sticking and makes the rice a nice golden yellow colour | |
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Posted: 6/30/2009 4:40:09 PM | Where's the part that makes it Thai? It's not even Asian if you omit the soy sauce.
You need to add basil, lime, fish sauce and Thai peppers to make it Thai.
Pretty standard. | |
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Posted: 6/30/2009 9:50:01 PM | we dont put basil in fried rice mam.
or if you like just do it. | |
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Posted: 6/30/2009 9:51:30 PM | and if you like to tried a fish sauce and put the lime before serve it is good also.
but the soy sauce is also thai mam. i like it and i grow up with it.
and i am 100% thai. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2009 12:09:57 AM | Just because you own a car, it doesn't make you a driver.
I'm sure different regions use different ingredients. My instructor used basil, lime leaves, green onions and cilantro in Thai cooking, including fried rice. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2009 5:58:33 AM | When did family recipes have to start fitting the standard? Including or omitting ingredients does not change the authenticity. We all cook to our liking.
Littlethaifish, I enjoy your recipes, please keep sharing so I can add them to my recipe file. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2009 7:46:45 PM | | I like your recipes too. Please keep them coming. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 1:04:14 PM | What's your problem?
In every single post of yours that I've read you come across as a belligergent, arrogant know-it-all. Just because your had an instructor (in Canada) on thia cooking you think you know more than a thai person posting a thai recipe!! Gimme a break! Must you always have a smart aleck response for every post here? Your approach with communication is really not very attractive. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 1:06:04 PM | | My comments were to Wiskey Woman. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2009 5:43:04 PM | Bumpy: There are A LOT of people that post GREAT recipes on here. Some not so great. But that's fine. Everyone has different tastes. HOWEVER there are A LOT of people that post complete nonsense and think that they really do "know it all". Somebody comes along and reads what is written and thinks,"i guess once the oil is smoking it's ok to put my frozen fish in it."
There are a lot of inexperienced cooks that read and post on here. If I can shed some light on something that is unclear, I do so, as do others.
And just because you're from Texas, it doesn't make you an expert on bbq. The op's Thai rice recipe doesn't exactly scream "Thai" does it? It could be Chinese, Japanese, Korean or anything else if you omit the soy sauce. I make the same recipe all the time. It's fantastic. But I don't call it something it isn't.
What's your problem with Canada? I'll put my cooking instruction up against your spelling any day. | |
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Posted: 7/3/2009 8:50:46 AM | littleThaifish, thanks for the recipe. Sounds good  | |
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Posted: 7/3/2009 10:45:08 AM | Thxs for the recipe... any curry sauce recipes? Oops curry for pork or any?
Any light veggie eggroll recipes? | |
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Posted: 7/3/2009 2:03:53 PM | littleThaifish don't let the recipe cops give you a hard time. It's not worth the effort. It's one thing for a person to give constructive advice in a nice way. Then there are the snarky people who have a holier then thou attitude. They can't give advice without being mean about it. Don't waste your time arguing with them.
We love your recipes and ideas so please keep them coming.
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Posted: 7/3/2009 6:44:59 PM | Thank you little, I am gonna try this...and thanks for the little hint about not using hot rice...
Hey little, do you have any recipes for red curry/kinda sweet and spicy vegetables/ with rice and chicken. Sorry I dont know the exact name, I order it all the time at the Thia restuarant. I trust your recipe, authentication....Thanks... | |
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Posted: 7/3/2009 9:06:11 PM | You need to use already cooked rice that has been cooled. You can't use freshly cooked rice, at least not if you want it to turn out properly. It sticks together too much.
I imagine that a good jasmine rice would be very nice in this case. I've used it to make my own fried rice and like it better than the regular par-boiled. JMHO | |
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Posted: 7/8/2009 9:45:35 AM | oh i just check the messeges..
i'm not a master of cooking but i love it and what i put is my heart 
i just post what thai people in my country do, only for sharing the experience.
actually both of thailand and chinese or korean are in Asia and we also have many same ingredients , just different way to use. And it is nearly same tast of each sauce but if somebodies used to it, will find that there is something different.
normally thai food use a basil leaf with a spicy foods as a curry(with out coconut) and pad kra prao
but it is no problems friends, foods are nothing wrong, it is one piece of art.
even the same ingredients but can be also a different tast.
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Posted: 7/15/2009 11:34:52 PM | Adding this one to my recipe file!keep them coming, littlethaifish.
Do you have a family recipe for Pad Thai? It's one of my favorites and I'd like to prepare it at home. I've copied one from the internet, but I'd love to try a tried and true family recipe. | |
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Posted: 7/16/2009 10:57:23 PM | hi!
I have one of padthai from thai people, but not that from me because my family not eat it so much,
Here it is,
1/2 lime
1-2 egg
4 teaspoons fish sauce
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 teaspoon ground dried chili pepper
1 shallot, minced
2 tablespoon tamarind sauce
1/2 package Thai rice noodles (Recommend noodles from Chanthaburi)
1/3 cup tofu - extra firm
1-1/2 cup Chinese chives - green
2 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 tablespoon preserved turnip (Hua Chai Po)
1-1/3 cup bean sprouts
2 tablespoons peanuts
1 tablespoon coconut sugar
1/2 banana flower Optional (i think you may not need it and also it is not easy to find)
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How to :
We got to prepare a noodles by put it in a water about 15 minutes or till it get soft.
1. heat the oil, Stir fried a minced Shallots with a firm Tofu and preserved turnip (Hua Chai Po)
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2 Put the tamarind sauce, fish sauce, Coconut sugar (Nam taan peeb) and 1-2 eggs
then stir fried it together.
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3. Put a soft noodles.
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4. stirfried it together and put some dried chilli peper.
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5. put the bean sprouts and chinese chives green (Gui Chai)
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6. top with the peanuts or chashew nuts.
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Done : if you want a shrimp just put it in No.1 Section.
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Posted: 7/16/2009 11:10:38 PM | | Thanks! UI'm adding it to my file. I hope to try it very soon. I'm craving Pad Thai. | |
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Posted: 7/17/2009 2:43:20 AM | Any chance Maple Ridge BC is on a fault line and we're gonna have a major seismic event soon? Probably wouldn't matter ... I gather sh*t floats and the tide would carry her back to shore to continue spewing forth her sewage. I thought Celine Dion and Stephen Harper were enough to embarrass me about being Canadian ... I underestimated the level of the bar.
I like your recipes, LittleThai. Keep them coming. | |
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Posted: 7/17/2009 5:20:31 AM | I find the remove egg and cut bit scary!! I'm one for the egg first, add rice whilst egg is still raw-ish and keep cooking everything as you go.
Thai curry sauce on egg fried rice is amazing. Chuck in some left over prawns and barbeque pork and you've got the meal of kings... mmm... | |
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