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Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao Crispy Fried Egg Salad. Christmas salad recipes. Copyright 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

This Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao makes an addictive salad of crispy fried eggs with sweet tomatoes, purple shallots, crunchy peanuts, fragrant coriander and Chinese celery, chillies, and a salad dressing that’s all at once sweet, sour, tangy, and funky. This is the latest recipe in our Weekend Eggs series on egg dishes from around the world.  

When you think of egg salads, what probably comes to mind are creamy boiled egg salads with mayonnaise that have the texture of baby food. This Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao makes a salad that’s full of so much texture and flavour and a kick of chilli-heat that it couldn’t be more different.

Sweet juicy tomatoes, aromatic coriander, crunchiness coming from the purple shallots, roasted peanuts and Chinese celery stems, a hit of heat from the chillies, crispy fried eggs that soak up a salad dressing that’s sour, sweet, tangy, and funky… this Thai fried egg salad is so simple yet so delicious and it’s absolutely addictive.  

This Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao is the latest recipe in our series of Weekend Eggs dishes. If you haven’t dropped by in a while, we rebooted our Weekend Eggs series on quintessential breakfast eggs dishes from around the world, which we first launched with Grantourismo over a decade ago. 

Recipes published in the revived series so far include pesto scrambled eggs, Japanese rolled omelette recipe for tamagoyaki, scrambled eggs with sauteed mushrooms on sourdough, soft scrambled eggs with Chinese pork and chives, Indian egg bhurji, Chinese marbled tea eggs, corn fritter breakfast burgers, Russian devilled eggs, Turkish çılbır poached eggs and menemen scrambled eggs, Calabria’s  ‘eggs in purgatory’ with ’nduja, Thai son-in-law eggs, Thai omelette kai jiaw, Cambodian steamed eggs, and Malaysia and Singapore’s half-boiled eggs with kaya jam and toast.

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Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao, a Deliciously Addictive Crispy Fried Egg Salad

When we make this Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao we make a mountain of the stuff as we can’t stop eating it and it keeps well for a day in the fridge in a sealed container. First it serves as a fantastic filling meal on its own for breakfast, brunch or lunch, then we’ll eat any leftovers as a side to Thai fried chicken, which is exactly what we did last night.

In Thailand, this crispy fried egg salad is eaten at any time of day, which is why it makes a brilliant breakfast salad or brunch salad, but serves equally well as lunch or dinner dish. In Thailand, it’s a dish that’s made in the home or sold at a local street food eatery selling a style of home-cooked food. It’s rare that you’d find this simple dish in a Thai restaurant unless it was elevated so as to be barely recognisable. We prefer it prepared in a more rustic home-style fashion.

A Thai ‘yam’ – also written as ‘yum’ – is a kind of salad that is comparable to a tossed salad. The Thai word ‘yam’ in fact doesn’t mean salad as such, but means to mix, toss or combine together. In contrast to a salad such as som tam, which is pounded together in a mortar and pestle, the salad ingredients are combined in a mixing bowl and plated.

As with salads in Cambodia and Vietnam, this style of Thai salad is all about the combination of textures and flavour, as much as vibrancy and aroma. The salad ingredients need to be super fresh, fragrant and vibrant and the dressing needs to be intensely flavoured, like a good dipping sauce.  

‘Khai dao’ in Thai means ‘fried egg’, but quite literally ‘star egg’, and it’s a Thai style of fried egg, which means its deep-fried or fried in a lot of oil so that the egg has a crispy texture and is brown coloured.

There are several types of crispy fried eggs: a crispy fried egg with a soft yolk, which is called ‘khai dao mai suk’; a medium-done crispy fried egg with a cooked yolk that is firm, which is ‘khai dao suk pan klang’; and well-done crispy fried egg with a hard yolk, which is ‘khai dao suk mak’, which is how Thais like their eggs to be done for salad.

If you enjoy this recipe, do browse our other Thai recipes. This yum chee recipe by chef Chalee Kader at 100 Mahaseth restaurant in Bangkok is another favourite Thai salad or yam – or yum, if you prefer.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao Crispy Fried Egg Salad. Copyright 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Tips to Making This Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe

The dressing for this Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao is what really brings this dish together. Therefore, try to source real palm sugar if you can. It can come crystallised (like brown sugar), but it’s best bought in the form of discs, which travel and store better, or as a firm dense liquid in a jar – almost of the consistency of Chinese maltose but not as annoyingly sticky.

It’s important to make the dressing first so that the flavours meld together. I’ve seen Thai fried egg salad recipes where, rather bizarrely, the salad dressing is not even made into a sauce but ingredients are individually scattere over the finished salad. Like all Thai dressings and Thai dipping sauces, the longer you let the flavours meld, the better the taste.

If you can’t get fresh limes, you can use bottled lime juice but it’s usually crazily expensive. You cannot substitute lemons for this unfortunately, the flavour profile is completely different.

With fish sauce, we use Megachef fish sauce for Thai food because it has the most consistent salinity levels.

We use two bird’s eye chillies to make the base of the dressing. These are pounded down in a mortar and pestle and then the other ingredients are added and stirred in. If you do like some heat, but don’t want to eat the actual flesh or seeds of the bird’s eye chillies, I recommend straining the salad dressing before using it on the salad.

You can use one half of a deseeded long chilli to make the base of the dressing if you don’t like a lot of heat, but *some* chilli heat is essential to this Thai fried egg salad recipe.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao Crispy Fried Egg Salad. Copyright 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

The Crispy Fried Eggs

I’ve spotted a few Thai fried egg salad recipes where the salad features fried eggs with soft yolks. Not only is it next to impossible to make really crispy eggs whites to the level of crispiness that the Thais like for this salad – which is a fried egg with a hard yolk called khai dao suk mak – but you already have an amazing salad dressing without the need for runny yolks.

In Thailand, you’ll find that the preferred level of crispiness of the eggs will be different from stall to stall and home to home. Some cooks really baste the yolk so it’s super firm. Some flip the eggs over to really get the whole egg crispy and brown.

For us, even though we love runny yolks, we like to fry these eggs so that the yolk is just cooked through yet we still have the nice crispy brown edges that add texture to each mouthful of the dish.

Because this is not a hot egg dish, you can cook off the eggs before you make the salad – in fact it’s better concentrating on the eggs first so the salad is fresh.

We do one fried egg at a time in a small non-stick pan with plenty of oil, not only so the egg does not stick to the bottom of the pan, but so you have enough oil to baste the egg while its cooking. If your oil is hot enough, it really only takes just over a minute or two per egg.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe for Yam Khai Dao Crispy Fried Egg Salad. Christmas salad recipes. Copyright 2021 Terence Carter / Grantourismo. All Rights Reserved.

Thai Fried Egg Salad Recipe

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Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao makes an addictive salad of crispy fried eggs with sweet tomatoes, purple shallots, crunchy peanuts, fragrant coriander and Chinese celery, and a salad dressing that’s all at once sweet, sour and tangy. This is the latest in our Weekend Eggs series on egg recipes from around the world.
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 8 minutes
Total Time: 23 minutes
Course: Salad
Cuisine: Thai
Servings: 2 People
Calories: 401kcal
Author: Terence Carter

Equipment

  • mortar and pestle

Ingredients

Dressing
  • 2 bird's eye chilies see tips
  • 1 tbsp palm sugar more to taste
  • 3 tbsp lime juice fresh
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce to taste
Salad
  • Neutral vegetable oil for frying as needed
  • 4 eggs large and at room temperature
  • 1 small red onion julienned very finely
  • 2 long red chillis deseeded and chopped into rounds
  • 2 stalks Chinese celery plus a handful of leaves
  • 2 Roma tomatoes cut into slim wedges, or cherry tomatoes halved
  • ½ cup coriander leaves chopped (cilantro)
  • ¼ cup roasted peanuts crushed lightly

Instructions

To Fry the Eggs

  • Fill a small non-stick frying pan (20 cm is optimal), with the oil to around 1 cm in depth. You want this over a medium-high heat and have a surface where you can cool down the pan in-between eggs.
  • Prepare some kitchen or paper towels over a tray for the finished eggs. Have a large spoon and a fish slice handy to baste and remove the egg respectively.
  • Check the temperature of the oil by placing the base of a wooden chopstick in the middle of the pan. If bubbles form around the chopstick, the oil is hot enough.
  • Crack the first egg into a small ramekin and add to the pan. Be careful that it will splatter a little and the whites will start to bubble up – this is a good sign.
  • Baste the egg until the edges are as brown as you desire, usually 1-2 minutes. Remove the egg with the fish slice onto the paper or kitchen towels.
  • Repeat this process with the remaining eggs.

To make the dressing

  • Add the chillis you're using to a mortar and pestle and pound until broken down.
  • If using solid palm sugar, break it up before adding the the mortar and pound into the chillis. Add the lime juice and fish sauce and stir to combine. Remember, if you don't want the actual skin or seeds of the bird's-eye chillis in the final dressing, strain them out before dressing the salad.
  • Taste the dressing and add sugar, fish sauce or lime juice to taste. Do not dress the salad until just before serving.

To make the Salad

  • In a large bowl add the red onion, chilli slices and tomatoes Cut the Chinese celery into small stalks and separate the leaves. Add this to the salad, keeping some of the leaves to finish off the salad.
  • Traditionally, the fried eggs are chopped into slices or quarters, but depending on how you want to present the salad, you can present the eggs as you please.
  • Once you have added the eggs, mix the salad, add the coriander leaves, peanuts and celery leaves and dress the salad just before serving.
  • This dish is generally served either with steamed jasmine rice or just placed on the table as part of a larger spread of dishes. We love it served with Thai fried chicken.

Nutrition

Calories: 401kcal | Carbohydrates: 40g | Protein: 26g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 4g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 5g | Monounsaturated Fat: 7g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 327mg | Sodium: 1707mg | Potassium: 1366mg | Fiber: 5g | Sugar: 14g | Vitamin A: 3606IU | Vitamin C: 168mg | Calcium: 275mg | Iron: 8mg

Please do let us know in the comments below if you make this Thai fried egg salad recipe for yam khai dao as we’d love to know how it turns out for you.

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About Terence Carter

Terence Carter is an editorial food and travel photographer and infrequent travel writer with a love of photographing people, places and plates of food. After living in the Middle East for a dozen years, he settled in South-East Asia a dozen years ago with his wife, travel and food writer and sometime magazine editor Lara Dunston.

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  1. Pam M says

    July 19, 2021 at 3:22 pm

    Hi, I rememeber having this years ago at a resort in Phuket and your recipe brought back memories of it (and Phuket!). Asian supermarket had Cambodian palm sugar in a jar! Also fresh Chinese celery which was so fragrant and light. The eggs were a bit scary at first with all that bubbling but worked out well. Agree they’re fine being ‘well done’ because the dressing is so delicious. Less cooked eggs just tasted like fried eggs…thanks for this recipe!5 stars

  2. Lara Dunston says

    July 19, 2021 at 3:32 pm

    Hi Pam, so pleased to hear you enjoyed it and that it brought back memories! Yes, we’re big fans of runny eggs, although this dish is all about the contrast in textures and the crispy fried eggs are perfect for this salad. If you enjoyed this dish, you might like this too. Just realised we forgot to link to this above but I’ll add the link now: http://grantourismotravels.com/thai-omelette-recipe/ Thanks so much for taking the time to drop by!

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Our crab omelette recipe was one of our 22 most popular egg recipes of 2022 on our website Grantourismo and it’s no surprise. It’s appeared more times than any other egg recipes on our annual round-ups of most popular recipes since Terence launched Weekend Eggs when we launched Grantourismo in 2010.

If you’re an eggs lover, do check out the recipe collection. It includes egg recipes from right around the world, from recipes for classic kopitiam eggs from Singapore and Malaysia and egg curries from India and Myanmar to all kinds of egg recipes from Thailand, Japan, Korea, China, Mexico, USA, Australia, UK, and Ireland.

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We’re hoping 2023 will be the year we can finally publish the Weekend Eggs cookbook we’ve talked about for years based on that series. After we can find a publisher for the Cambodia cookbook of course... :( 

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Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re mak Who can guess the ingredients and what we’re making with my market haul from Psar Samaki in Siem Reap — all for a whopping 10,000 riel (US$2.50)?! 

Birds-eye chillies thrown in for free! They were on my list but the seller I spent most at (5,000 riel!) scooped up a handful and slipped them into my bag. She was my last stop and knew what I was making.

My Khmer is poor, even after all our years in Cambodia, as I don’t learn languages with the ease I did in my 20s, plus I’m mentally exhausted after researching and writing all day. I have a better vocabulary of Old and Middle Khmer than modern Khmer from studying the ancient inscriptions for the Cambodian culinary history component of our cookbook I’m writing.

So when one seller totalled my purchases I thought she said 5,000 riel but she handed back 4,500 riel! The sum total of two huge bunches of herbs and kaffir lime leaves was 500 riel.

Tip: if visiting Siem Reap, use Khmer riel for local shopping. We’ve mainly used riel since the pandemic started— rarely use US$ now as market sellers quote prices in riels, as do local shops and bakeries, and I tip tuk tuk drivers in riels. I find prices quoted in riels are lower.

Psar Samaki is cheaper than Psar Leu, which is cheaper than Psar Chas, as it’s a wholesale market, which means the produce is fresher. I see veggies arriving, piled high in the back of vehicles, with dirt still on them — as I did on this trip. 

The scent of a mountain of incredibly aromatic pineapples offloaded from the back of a dusty ute was so heady they smelt like they’d just been cut. More exotic European style veggies arrive by big trucks in boxes labelled in Vietnamese (from Dalat) and Mandarin (from China), such as beautiful snow-white cauliflower I spotted.

Note: the freshest produce is sold on the dirt road at the back of the market.

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My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recip My Vietnamese-ish meatballs and rice noodles recipe makes tender meatballs doused in a delightfully tangy-sweet sauce, sprinkled with crispy fried shallots, with carrot-daikon, crunchy cucumber and fragrant herbs. 

The dish is inspired by bún chả, a Hanoi specialty, but it’s not bún chả. No matter what Google or food bloggers tell you. Names are important, especially when cooking and writing about cuisines not our own.

This is an authentic bún chả recipe:  https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-bun-cha-recipe/ You’ll need to get the outdoor BBQ/grill going to do proper smoky bún chả meat patties (not meatballs).

My meatball noodle bowl is perhaps more closely related to dishes such as a Central Vietnam cousin bún thịt nướng (pork skewers on rice noodles in a bowl) and a Southern relation bún bò Nam Bộ (beef atop rice noodles, sprinkled with fried shallots (Nam Bộ=Southern Vietnam) though neither include meatballs. 

Xíu mại= meatballs although they’re different in flavour to mine, which taste more like bún chả patties. Xíu mại remind me of Southern Italian meatballs in tomato sauce.

In Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, home to millions of Khmer, there’s bánh tằm xíu mại. Bánh tằm=silk worm noodles. They’re topped with meatballs, cucumber, daikon, carrot, fresh herbs, crispy fried onions. Difference: cold noodles doused in a sauce of coconut cream and fish sauce. 

Remove the meatballs, add chopped fried spring rolls and it’s Cambodia’s banh sung, which is a rice noodle salad similar to Vietnam’s bún chả giò :) 

Recipe here: (link in bio) https://grantourismotravels.com/vietnamese-meatballs-and-rice-noodles-recipe/

For more on these culinary connections you’ll have to wait for our Cambodian cookbook and culinary history. In a hurry to know? Come support the project on Patreon. (link in bio)

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It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour It is pure coincidence that Pepper’s eye colour matches the furnishings of our rented apartment. So, no, I did not colour-coordinate the interiors to match our cat’s eyes. 

I keep getting DMs from pet clothing brands wanting to “partner” with Pepper and send her free cat clothes and cat accessories. Although she did wear a kerchief for a few years in her more adventurous fashion-forward teenage years, I cannot see this cat in clothes now, can you? 

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