Thai omelet Khai Jiao is Thai style omelette recipe which is eaten as a snack or a quick meal. When you want a quick meal for dinner this is perfect street food for dinner. This popular street food is considered as a Thai comfort food.
Traditionally bread omelette is considered a popular omelette, but not this one. Thai Omelette tastes has a umami flavour and tastes best with steamed rice! If you love egg recipes too you will love it for sure.
Thai omelet is golden and crisp omelet which is often served as rice topper in Thailand. Unlike most varieties of omelette, this one is not a breakfast dish, it is served mostly with rice or any sour and spicy dish as a main meal.
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How to Make Thai Omelette
Eggs are combined with lemon juice or vinegar, fish sauce and whisked to make an airy batter which is used to make Thai omelette. If like me you do not eat fish or meat you can substitute fish sauce with soy sauce and still make Thai omelette or Khai Jiao.
Making Thai omelette is not difficult, but it requires a special technique which is slightly different from regular omelette of any kind. The batter for omeltte can be simplest, you just need a good fish sauce other than oil and eggs. If you are non-meat eaters and eat eggs like me fish sauce can be substituted with soy sauce.
Thai Omelette Ingredients
- Eggs: I use farm fresh organic eggs. For one omelette you need two eggs.
- Spices & Seasonings: Salt, Chilli sauce, lime juice, Soy sauce
- Corn flour: for the structure of omelette.
- Oil: You need ½ cup of oil in the pan to deep fry the omelette but actually it absorbs ½tbsp.
- Fish Sauce: It is optional since I do not consume meat I skipped it.
Watch How to Make Thai Omelet - Kai Jiew
Thai Omelette Recipe (step by Step)
- Combine eggs, salt, soy sauce, corn starch, lime juice, a medium bowl. Wish till batter is frothy and there are no white streaks of egg whites.
- Heat the oil in a karahi or round-bottom wok till it reaches smoking point.
- Hold the egg bowl over a good height of almost 10-12 inches over the wok and pour the egg mixture into the hot oil.
- Allow the egg mixture to cook/deep fry for 1 minutes or so till edges become crispy and flip the omelette cook it till light golden brown.
- Serve hot omelette immediately over a steaming bowl of rice and hot sauce or Sriracha sauce.
But as with other dishes, many variations can be added to this omellete kai jiew as well. Usually, Thai omelette is served over jasmine rice and topped with hot sauce/sriracha sauce for the spicy kick.
If you like higher spice level, you can add some chilli sauce or hot sauce in the batter as well. In my Spanish omelette video recipe, almost thousand people asked to add some sort of heat so in this recipe I added some hot sauce while making the batter.
Tips for Making good Thai Omelette
- I also added little corn flour while making the omelette to make it crispier.
- Main thing while making this deep-fried omelette is you need either a wok or kadhai to make it as we need lesser surface area for the batter to remain concentrated. Otherwise, it may fall flat while cooking and may not turn out crispy as it should be.
- While pouring batter into the wok, make sure to pour it from the height as it helps in forming crispy edges of the omelet.
- Oil should be smoking hot before you pour the omelet batter into the wok.
More Such Recipes
If you want to check out other tasty Omelette recipes on my tasty curry you may like to try:
- Spanish omelette
- Spinach Omelette Recipe
- Indian Masala Cheese omelette,
- 2 Minutes Microwave omelette.
- How to make a perfect omelette
- Indian Masala omelette Curry
📖 Recipe
Thai Omelet Recipe - Kai Jiew or Khai Jiao Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 eggs Whole
- Salt to taste
- 1 tablespoon Chilli sauce
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon corn flour
- ½ cup oil (actually used is about 1tbsp because it is deep fried omelette rest is reused)
Instructions
- Combine eggs,salt, soy sauce, corn starch, lime juice, a medium bowl. Wish till batter is frothy and there are no white streaks of egg whites.
- Heat the oil in a wok till it reaches smoking point.
- Hold the egg bowl over a good height of almost 10-12 inches over the wok and pour the egg mixture into the hot oil.
- Allow the egg mixture to cook/deep fry for 1 minutes or so till edges become crispy.
- Flip the omelette cook it till light golden brown.
- Serve hot omelette immediately over a steaming bowl of rice and hot sauce or Sriracha sauce.
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