Recipe: Fried Rice with Shrimp/Chicken/Pork Thai Style (khao phad goong/gai/moo)

Who already once spent its vacation in Thailand,
will have tried this tasty Thai dish.
Specially people, which do not like to eat hot and spicy,
will like this Thai Style fried rice.
Remaining rice from the day before can be recycled with this recipe.

Ingredients per person:
oil to fry
one cup cooked rice from the day before
3-5 shrimps
or 100 gramm chicken, chopped
or pork
1 egg
1/2 tomato
1 -2 garlic cloves
1/2 onion
1-2 stem Kale (Kana/Kanaa, chinese brokkoli)
1 teaspoon fishsauce
1 teaspoon light soysauce
1 teaspoon oytersauce
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon white ground pepper
optional: a pinch of MSG Monosodium Glutamat (food enhancer - Pong Tschue Rod)

Preparation:
Heat a bit of oil in a wok .
Add shrimps (chicken, pork) and chopped garlic.
and fry at a big heat,
until the shrimps get a redish color.
Add an egg and scramble until the egg is stiffed.
Now add the rice and fry at a big heat.
Add Fishsauce, light Soysauce and oystersauce
and stir well.
Add chopped vegetables (tomato, onion, kale) and
season with sugar, pepper and MSG,
and fry until the vegetables are done (about 2-4 minutes).
Garnish with corianderleaves and springonions
and serve with slices of cucumber and a piece of lemon.
To spice up provide a small cup with "Prik nam pla"

Tips & Tricks:

Absolutely use cooked rice from the day before,
otherwise Your fried rice will be slushy!
Alternatively for all hasty ones: Cook the rice and as soon as it is done,
remove covers and let it cool down, the longer the better.
This recipe one should prepare on a gas stove,
the heat of electric cookers can badly be adjusted and are not sufficient,
the result will be a slushy, fried rice.

At the vegetable You can add, what You like,
peppers, carrots, brokkoli, cauliflower, sprouts .....
The cookingtime depends on the cut of the vegetables.
Also with the meat there are no limits to Your fantasy,
permitted is what You like,
for example: Wiener sausage, minced pork or beef,
mixed chopped meat ( beef, pork, chicken, turkey,...)
chorizo(spicy sausage from Spain, ham, seafood, mussels.....

A Thai cook prepares "fried rice with pork" (Khao pad moo):