Thai
Kai Dao (Thai Fried Egg)
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Kai Dao (Thai Fried Egg) is Thai home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the protein alongside and the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Heat the oil in a small skillet over high heat until shimmering and nearly smoking.
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Crack in an egg and fry until the edges puff, blister and turn golden brown while the yolk stays soft, about 1 minute, spooning hot oil over the white as it cooks.
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Drain briefly and repeat with the remaining eggs.
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Drizzle with a little fish sauce and slide onto rice.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kai Dao (Thai Fried Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kai Dao (Thai Fried Egg) carries eggs and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Drunken Noodles with Chicken |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 280 kcal
- Protein
- 13 g
- Carbs
- 1 g
- Fat
- 25 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 0 g
- Sodium
- 290 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kai Dao (Thai Fried Egg) takes about 5 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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