Thai
Pad Fak Thong Sai Khai (Pumpkin with Egg)
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Pad Fak Thong Sai Khai (Pumpkin with Egg) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable 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 pan and fry the garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds.
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Add the pumpkin with a splash of water, cover and cook until nearly tender, about 6 minutes.
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Uncover and season with the fish sauce, light soy sauce and white pepper.
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Push the pumpkin to one side, crack in the eggs and scramble, then fold everything together until the egg is just set and the pumpkin is tender.
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Serve hot alongside 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 Pad Fak Thong Sai Khai (Pumpkin with Egg), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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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. Pad Fak Thong Sai Khai (Pumpkin with Egg) carries gluten, eggs, soy, and fish. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Soy | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| Fish | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
| 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
- 210 kcal
- Protein
- 8 g
- Carbs
- 12 g
- Fat
- 14 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 4 g
- Sodium
- 480 mg
- Saturated fat
- 2 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pad Fak Thong Sai Khai (Pumpkin with Egg) takes about 15 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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