Thai

Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy)

Name: Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy)
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 4 large eggs; 1 tsp light soy sauce; 1/4 tsp white pepper; 4 slices sandwich bread; 1 tbsp butter; 4 cups water

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Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy) is Thai home cooking, eaten at breakfast. 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 Eggetarian Pescatarian

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 large eggs
1 tsp light soy sauce
1/4 tsp white pepper
4 slices sandwich bread
1 tbsp butter
4 cups water

How to cook it

Bring the water to a boil in a small pot, turn off the heat and lower in the eggs straight from the fridge.
Cover and leave them for 6 to 7 minutes, so the whites are barely set and the yolks still runny.
Toast and butter the bread while the eggs sit.
Crack the eggs into small glasses or bowls, add a few drops of light soy sauce and a shake of white pepper, and stir lightly.
Eat with a spoon, dipping the buttered toast, the cafe breakfast most Thai kitchens can make in ten minutes.

Serve it with

A Thai breakfast is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

What it is eaten with
- Khao Niao (Sticky Rice)
  
  45 min

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. Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy) carries dairy, gluten, eggs, and soy. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Drunken Noodles with Chicken
Gluten	Yes	Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Drunken Noodles with Chicken
Soy	Yes	Gaeng Som Pla (Thai Sour Curry with Fish and Vegetables)
Fish	No
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: 340 kcal
Protein: 18 g
Carbs: 28 g
Fat: 17 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 3 g
Sodium: 630 mg
Saturated fat: 7 g

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

When to cook it

Khai Luak (Soft-Cooked Eggs with Pepper and Soy) takes about 10 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.