Pad Prik Khing, ผัดพริกขิง in Thai, or Stir Fried Ginger in English. As I mention to an earlier article if you see Thai word “Prik”, it means chili and had spicy flavor. This menu would be some spicy from ginger itself and from fresh sliced chili as well. How you want it to be spicy, it depend on how many fresh chili you put on the food; put more if you love hot flavor or put less if you want to taste less spicy.
The main ingredients of this dish is ginger or we called “Khing” in Thai. Ginger has some health benefit include relieving nausea, loss of appetite, motion sickness, and pain. I make this menu more often for my first trimester of pregnancy, it helps me with nausea feeling and this menu is the only menu that I can eat with no feeling of sickness or nausea.
Ginger root has some spicy taste but unlike spicy as chili. If you prefer to only have ginger spicy flavor, you can skip the chili for this menu and use red bell pepper instead of the fresh chili.
When you choose ginger from grocery store, make sure you get the fresh one as possible.
Serve for 4
Ingredients
- 1 pound of Chicken or other meat of your choice
- 1 Red Onion, thinly sliced or Sweet Yellow Onion as your desire
- 1 head of Fresh Ginger, thinly sliced
- 5 Shiitake Mushrooms, stem off and thinly sliced
- 4 Green Onion, cut into 1 and 1/2 inches
- 1 Red Bell Pepper, seeds removed
- 2 tablespoons of Extra Virgin Olive Oil
- 2 tablespoons of Oyster Sauce
- 1/2 tablespoon of Fish Sauce
- 1 tablespoon of Sugar
- Dash of Salt and Ground Black Pepper to taste
Preparation
- In a large sauce pan, saute red onion with olive oil with medium high heat for 5 minutes or until the onion look light golden brown.
- Then added the left of vegetable; shiitake, bell pepper, ginger and stir quickly for 2 -3 minutes.
- Added chicken, oyster sauce, fish sauce and sugar, stir until the chicken cook and tender. Then added green onion and saute for about a minute. Dash some salt and ground black pepper to taste.
