Shrimp in curry egg sauce – Pad Pong Karee
One of the most popular dishes in a Thai seafood restaurant is crabmeat stir-fried in a curry-egg sauce, said to be the invention of the Thai-Chinese couple who started Somboon Seafood. This one substitutes shrimp for crab, in case crabmeat is hard to come by.
Ingredients
- 1 kilo fresh shrimp
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil for frying
- 1 tablespoon garlic garlic
- ½ white onion chopped
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon curry powder
- 1 teaspoon ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon roasted chilli paste nam prik pao
- 3 tablespoons fish stock or 1/2 cube fish or vegetable stock dissolved in 3 tablespoons water
- 1 egg
- 125 ml 125 ml canned evaporated milk can be substituted for coconut milk
- 3 finger-length red chillies prik chee fah, if available
Instructions
- Clean and devein the shrimp. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok. Over medium heat and fry the garlic and onion. Add the shrimp and fry until just cooked through.
- In a bowl, mix the soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar, curry powder, ground pepper, and roasted chilli paste with the fish stock and add to the wok. Add the egg and incorporate throughout the shrimp.
- Add the milk and chillies. Mix well and serve immediately.
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