Shrimp Paste Fried Rice With Mackerel (Kao Pad Nam Prik Kapi)

• 1 cup leftover steamed rice
• 1/2 tbsp cooking oil
• 1 tbsp chopped green beans
• 1/2 tbsp shrimp paste
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1/2 tbsp dried baby shrimp
• 2 bird eye chillies
• 1 1/2 tbsp lime juice
• 3/4 tbsp fish sauce
• 3/4 tbsp sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 small mackerel or fish of your choice
• fresh vegetables of your choice

Special Cooking Equipment Used

• wok

Cooking instructions

Step 1: Begin by adding 2 bird eye chillies and 2 cloves of garlic to a mortar and pestle, and crush into a paste. Then add in 1/2 tbsp of shrimp paste, 3/4 tbsp of fish sauce, 1/2 tbsp of dried baby shrimp, 3/4 tbsp of sugar, and 1 1/2 tbsp of lime juice, and mix everything together.

Step 2: Next add 2 eggs to a bowl along with 1/2 tbsp of soy sauce, and then beat the egg. Then coat a wok with some cooking oil, and use the egg to make a thin omelette. Once the omelette is golden brown, set aside for use later on.

Step 3: Next fry 1 small mackerel or any fish of your choice, then set aside. Then heat about 1/2 tbsp of cooking oil in a wok, and when hot add in 1 cup of leftover steamed jasmine rice and 1 tbsp of chopped green beans. Stir fry for about 2 minutes, then add in 2 tbsp of the paste we made in the mortar and pestle earlier on, and mix in with the rice.

Step 4: Stir fry everything for a final couple of minutes, then wrap the rice inside the omelette, and serve with the fried mackerel and the rest of the shrimp paste dip that we made earlier in the mortar and pestle.