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Khao Pad

A stir‑fried rice dish with eggs, garlic, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, meat, pepper, and spring onions.

From the Wikibooks Cookbook · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Meat and shrimp work together. They rank in the top 10% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 584 recipes. Both carry 1-octen-3-one, which smells mushroom, metallic. The science ↓

Khao Pad

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Heat up a frying pan or wok.

  2. Add the oil.

  3. Add the minced garlic and stir fry until fragrant.

Cook the rice

  1. Add the eggs and stir fry until cooked.

  2. Add the rice and stir fry.

  3. Season with fish sauce, soy sauce, and sugar, then continue frying until the rice is crumbly.

  4. Add meat, pepper, and spring onions, and stir again until heated through.

  5. Transfer to a serving dish.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

1021Calories
95 gProtein
37 gFat
72 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pork100g cooked242
Rice1 cup cooked (158g) white206
Chicken100g cooked165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Shrimp100g cooked99
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Sugar1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated49
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Soy Sauce1 tbsp (15ml)9
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Meatnot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

Recipe from the Wikibooks Cookbook.

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Meat + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together584 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  2. Garlic + shrimptop 10% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,743 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-ethyl-2,5-dimethylpyrazine (roasted, nutty).

  3. Rice + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together2,137 recipes

    Shared aroma: (e,e)-2,4-decadienal (fatty, deep fried).

  4. Meat + porktop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together3,208 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-one (mushroom, metallic).

  5. Rice + shrimptop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,055 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-methylbutanol (malty, whiskey).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggs
Scramble into soft pieces that mix through the rice and add richness.
Cooked rice
Forms the base of the dish; cooled rice fries up drier and separates more easily.
Fish sauce
Adds savory, salty depth that defines the dish's flavor.
Soy sauce
Adds salty, savory flavor and gives the rice a light browning color.
Cooked meat
Adds protein and savory flavor to the fried rice.

The step that matters

Continue frying until the rice is crumbly. Stir frying the rice until its grains separate and dry out keeps it from turning soggy or clumping. Frying over high heat also lets some grains brown slightly, which adds flavor.

Swap the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, rice, fish sauce, sauce, meat, shrimp, pork):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Turmericfits about as well
  3. Capersfits about as well
  4. Gingerfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against egg, rice, fish sauce, sauce, meat, shrimp, pork. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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