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Lasang Pinoy 22:Thai-inspired fried rice

December 29, 2007 By: User Image Gay Category: Asian, Rice

This is my first post for the Lasang Pinoy series, this time on rice. Quite appropriate for me as I work on resistance of rice to diseases. This is not so Pinoy though, but one I really like.

One of my favorite fried rice is Thai bago-ong fried rice from a Thai restaurant here in Los Banos. I’ve managed to copy it at home but this post is not about that. It’s Thai inspired in the sense that I was craving for it during the Christmas holidays but did not have all ingredients at hand. It started with me seeing a bunch of cilantro my mom bought the day before. I was already imagining Thai fried rice with sour green mangoes. Undaunted, I rummaged the ref and found some pork slices as well. I made me some Thai-inspired fried rice. I like to add eggs to my fried rice, but at that time we didn’t have any (We rely on eggs from the chickens we raise at home, but at that time, all the hens were nesting hence no fresh eggs).

Ingredients:

3 cups leftover cooked rice
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/2 cup cooked chopped pork (we had leftover liempo slice)
1 tbsp tamarind base
1 tsp sugar
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup chopped cilantro/wansoy

Saute garlic in 3 tbsp cooking oil. Do not let it burn. Add the tamarind base, sugar and pork. Saute for a minute or two then add the water. Bring water to a simmer then add the rice. Mix well, make sure that rice is well heated through. Add the chopped cilantro (reserve some for garnishing).

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This is making me want to travel to Thailand soon! Got to get myself a new luggage (e.g. zero Halliburton) so I can splurge on a lot of spices and eat all I want…

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8 Responses to “ Lasang Pinoy 22:Thai-inspired fried rice ”

# 1 JMom (Who am I?) Says:
December 29th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
May be Thai inspired, but it sounds totally Pinoy to me! It looks delicious!

Thanks for participating in LP-22, Gay. I look forward to seeing you in future LPs.
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# 2 Lalaine (Who am I?) Says:
December 29th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
That looks good! I’ve never heard of adding tamarind base to fried rice but sounds very interesting!
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# 3 A scientist in the kitchen (Who am I?) Says:
December 30th, 2007 at 12:44 am
JMom, you sure will here from me for more LPs

Lalaine, I wanted some sourness to my fried rice, it should have been green mangoes. But I didn’t have any so I used tamarind base like I use for my pad thai.
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# 4 ces (Who am I?) Says:
December 31st, 2007 at 5:29 pm
this photo made me drool for bagoong rice! sarap! and it’s lunch time! hmmm…thanks for sharing and congratulations for your first LP!
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# 5 Cooked From the Heart » LP 22 Round UP - Rice to the Challenge! Says:
January 6th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
[...] on from her mom’s recent visit. Gay, the Scientist in the Kitchen offers up a Thai inspired fried rice that is distinctly Pinoy. Ut-man of Overseas Pinoy Cooking offers another [...]
# 6 Burnt Lumpia (Who am I?) Says:
January 7th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Using tamarind base in the fried rice seems like a great idea! Thanks for this recipe!
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# 7 bursky (Who am I?) Says:
January 8th, 2008 at 2:42 am
tamarind base?! now that’s something new for the new year. (i think everyone’s surprised with it. you should call it ‘fried surpRICE” again, corny ako. sorry na…:P)
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# 8 stef (Who am I?) Says:
January 9th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
oooh yum.. you know what would make a great combination — your tamarind-flavored rice and lalaine’s bagoong one!!!
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