Thai Fried Rice

* Exported from MasterCook Mac *

Thai Fried Rice

Recipe By : Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Main courses, vegetarian* One-dish meals*
Vietnamese, Thai, SE Asian *

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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5 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 -5 cloves garlic
3/4 cup peeled and finely slivered shallots
4 quarter-sized slices of fresh ginger,
cut into fine slivers
1 fresh hot green chili, seeded and
cut into fine slivers
6 cups cooked, unsalted, white rice -- cold
1 cup mung bean sprouts -- washed and drained
1 large egg
1 1/2 teaspoons salt -- or to taste
2 tablespoons minced fresh Chinese parsley
=== FOR THE SAUCE ===
enough mashed red bean curd to make
6 tablespoons
1 tablespoon peeled, very finely grated fresh ginger
2 tablespoons very finely minced fresh hot green chilies
2 tablespoons very finely minced peeled shallots
1/2 cup fresh lime or lemon juice
=== Optional Garnishes ===
6 sprigs fresh mint
12 cucumber sticks, 3" x 1/3" x 1/3"

Author's Note:
It is not so much the ingredients in this dish that make it different from
Chinese fried rice as the sauce it is eaten with. The main ingredient in
this sauce is fermented bean curd, strong cheesy cubes that are available
bottled in most Chinese grocery stores, which sell many types of fermented
bean curd. The type used here consists of cubes that are doused in a red, winy
liquid and are bottled as Red Bean Curd or Nam Yee. At Thai grocery stores,
ask for red "tao hoo yee".

K's Note:
All I could find was Red Bean Curd Sauce, which appears to be the same thing,
bu
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already mashed.

DIRECTIONS:
Put the oil in a wok or a heavy skillet and heat over a medium flame.
When hot, put in the garlic.
Stir and cook for 1 minute.
Add the shallots.
Stir and fry for another 2 minutes.
Add the ginger and the chili.
Stir and fry another minute.
Put in the cooked rice and mung bean sprouts.
Stir and fry for 2 minutes.
Make a hole in the center of the rice and break the egg into it.
Stir the egg, first in its hole and then, when it sets a bit, mix it up with
the rice.
Add the salt.
Stir and fry the rice for 10 minutes or until it has heated through properly.
Stir in the minced Chinese parsley.

Mix all the ingredients for the sauce and put them in a bowl.

To serve, make a mound of the rice in a large platter.
Garnish with the mint and cucumber.
Pass along the sauce on the side.

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