Thailand

Kai Jeow

Name: Kai Jeow
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 3 Eggs; 1 tbsp Fish sauce; 1 tsp Rice flour (for fluffiness); 1 tsp Lime juice; 2 Spring onion; plenty Vegetable oil; to serve Cooked rice & sriracha

Thai crispy omelette over rice

Kai jeow is Thailand's everyday omelette and a classic of quick rice meals. Unlike a French omelette it is deep-fried crisp in plenty of hot oil.

Seasoned with fish sauce, the batter puffs up beautifully in the hot oil and turns golden and airy outside – served over rice with chilli sauce.

Servings2

Time15 min

LevelEasy

Ingredients

Eggs3
Fish sauce1 tbsp
Rice flour (for fluffiness)1 tsp
Lime juice1 tsp
Spring onion2
Vegetable oilplenty
Cooked rice & srirachato serve

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Whisk eggs vigorously with fish sauce, rice flour and lime juice.
Fold in the spring onion.
Heat the oil in a pan until very hot.
Pour in the egg mix; it puffs up at once and turns crisp.
Flip golden, drain, serve over rice with sriracha.

Make it original

Fish sauce and sriracha for kai jeow are in the Asia Boutique.

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