Pad kra pao

Pad kra pao is one of the most popular dishes in Thai cuisine. Rice cooked with pak choi is served with ground pork and fried eggs.

Ingredients

Main course For 4 people

250 g of long grain rice

4 tablespoons of butter

7 l of vegetable broth

4 small pak choi

1 shallot

2 cloves of garlic

2 limes

1 bunch of aromatic herbs, eg. coriander

3 tablespoons of sunflower oil

600 g of minced pork

4 eggs

2 tablespoons of sambal oelek

How to proceed

Preparation:

ca. 40 minutes

Toast the rice in half the butter. Set aside 1 dl of broth and blend the rice with the rest. Cover and simmer over medium heat for approx. 20 minutes, until all the liquid is absorbed. Halve the pak choi lengthwise. Halfway through cooking, add them to the rice and cook them together.

Meanwhile, chop the shallot. Mash the garlic with a knife. Squeeze the limes. Chop the aromatic herbs. Heat the oil in a pan and brown the garlic, shallots and minced meat over medium heat for approx. 10 minutes. Sprinkle with the stock set aside and the lime juice, then reduce. Add the chopped herbs and mix. In a non-stick pan, heat the remaining butter and prepare the fried eggs. Serve the rice with the pak choi, ground beef and eggs. Enjoy with sambal œlek. You may be interested to read mandarin marmalade recipe/ skyr cake with blueberries recipe/ Vegetable curry with tofu recipe.