Thai

Kai Jeow (Thai Omelette)

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Kai Jeow (Thai Omelette) is Thai home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is 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.

10 min Easy Gluten free Dairy free Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Crack the eggs into a bowl and beat vigorously for a full minute, until pale and slightly frothy; this is what gives the omelette its puffy edges.

  2. Stir in the fish sauce and sliced scallions.

  3. Heat the oil in a small skillet or wok over high heat until it shimmers and just starts to smoke.

  4. Pour in the egg mixture all at once; it should sizzle loudly and puff up immediately at the edges.

  5. Let it cook undisturbed until the bottom is deep golden and crisp, about 1 minute.

  6. Flip carefully with a spatula and cook the other side until golden and puffed, about 1 minute more.

  7. Lift onto a paper towel-lined plate to drain briefly.

  8. Serve hot over the jasmine 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 Jeow (Thai Omelette), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

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 Jeow (Thai Omelette) carries eggs and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Kai Jeow (Thai Omelette)
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
400 kcal
Protein
13 g
Carbs
52 g
Fat
15 g
Fiber
1 g
Sugar
1 g
Sodium
320 mg
Saturated fat
3 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Kai Jeow (Thai Omelette) takes about 10 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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