This simple dish features fried rice with tomato sauce chicken, wrapped in a soft egg omelette parcel. Pattaya fried rice is simply great for so many reasons. It looks great, is filling enough for any meal and super tasty too. Fried rice really does taste better this way, with a fluffy piece of omelette with every single bite of rice.

Ingredients for Fried Rice:

• 2 cups cooked rice preferably cold and overnight rice
  
• 100 grams boneless chicken breast cut into small pieces
  
• 100 grams shrimps peeled
  
• 1 Carrot cut into cubes
  
• 2 tbsp tomato ketchup
  
• 2 cloves garlic finely chopped
  
• 2 shallots thinly sliced
  
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil

Seasonings for chicken meat:

1/4 tsp salt

Seasonings for Fried Rice:

• 1 tbsp fish sauce
  
• 1 tspsalt
  
• 1 tsp ground white pepper

Ingredients for one omelette:

• 2 eggs beaten well
  
• 1/4 tsp salt
  
• 1/4 tsp ground white pepper
  
• 1 tsp corn flour or potato starch
  
• 1 tsp water

Garnishing:

• 1 tomato sliced
  
• 1 cucumber sliced
  
• 1 red chilicut into long stripes

SERVING FOR
3people

PREP TIME
20minutes

COOK TIME
10minutes

Ingredients for Pattaya Fried Rice:
Slice shallots and mince garlic. Cut chicken meat and carrots into small cubes. Peel fresh shrimps.
Cut a tomato, cucumber and chili as garnishing. And we're ready to fry the rice!

Frying Pattaya Fried Rice:
To start, wet your fingers and run through the cooled cooked rice to remove clumps.

On highest heat, heat up 2 tbsp oil in wok until very hot. Swirl in the oil to coat the bottom of wok. You will see smoke coming out of the wok.

Add in minced garlic and sliced shallots. Stir fry until lightly brown and fragrant.

Then, add in chicken meat and carrot. Continue frying until carrot is soft and the meat is just cooked, about 2 minutes.

Add in tomato ketchup. Followed by fish sauce and salt, to taste. Lightly mix till well coated.

Toss in shrimp and stir fry till shrimp just turn pink.

Add in the rice. Continue to stir fry and toss until all ingredients are thoroughly mixed.

Dish out and pack the fried rice into bowls. Set aside and we're ready to make the omelette to wrap the fried rice.

Making an omelette:

Crack 2 eggs into a bowl. Add seasonings and cornstarch solution. Using a whisk, beat till well mixed.

Heat a tsp of oil in a non-stick frying pan on medium heat.

Pour in the beaten eggs and swirl the pan by the handle to make an omelette as thin and large as possible. On low heat, cook for 20 seconds.

Then off the heat and leave the omelette covered for another 1 minute.

And we're done! The omelette should be about 90% cooked. At this point, we're ready to wrap the fried rice.

Wrapping Fried Rice:

When omelette is almost cooked, quickly place fried rice in the centre.

Fold the 4 edges of omelette to wrap the rice.

Place a flat serving plate over the wrapped omelette and carefully flip it over.

Top with garnishing and drizzle some ketchup or chili sauce over the top before serving. Enjoy!

Have all ingredients needed near your stove before you start frying.

For fried rice purpose, use 1 cup of water to cook 1 cup of rice. Try using less water to cook rice than you normally do. Otherwise you will have mushy rice that can't be fried.

Use a big wok / pan to fry your rice. This is to prevent overcrowding.

When using the cast iron wok, always bring the wok to smoking point. Then lower the heat and add oil. This will ensure the wok to be non-stick.

To get the "wok hei" fragrance (breath of wok), the wok needs to be heated till smoking and then the rice tossed repeatedly in order to 'smoke' the rice.

GOOD LUCK!!!