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This past weekend, our neighborhood Ralph was giving away free eggs–a carton of 18 large eggs. Being the cheapo shopper that I am, I didn’t pass up the opportunity, of course.
I have always loved eggs and I do shop at Ralph, plus more eggs mean I can experiment with some baking and make my favorite egg dishes such as this and this.
I did bake, but failed two times and wasted 8 eggs! I am not going to get into the excruciatingly painful and embarrassing details about my baking debacle (I am still in agony), but there was one thing that I did successfully with my eggs–this Thai recipe of son-in-law eggs…
(Don’t ask me about the name. I am puzzled. Why aren’t they daughter-in-law eggs? Hmmm, I smell gender discrimination.)
Anyway, these son-in-laws eggs are very good eggs. It’s a simple dish with lots of flavor–tangy, savory, syrupy, and a little spicy.
The taste is similar to my Malaysian sweet and sour eggs, but the eggs are first hard-boiled, deep-fried, and then topped with tamarind sauce.
The sauce was so good that I practically had to dabble the very last bit of it–leaving not a single drop–with my fingers! Yeah, I kid you not. I suspect the same tamarind sauce would go every well with deep-fried fresh water prawns, but that is another post. ;)
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How Many Calories per Serving?
This recipe is only 163 calories per serving.
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Son-In-Law Eggs
Ingredients
- 4 boiled eggs (shelled)
- 2 big shallots (finely shredded)
- Oil (for deep frying)
- Scallion (or cilantro for garnishing)
Tamarind Sauce:
- 1/2 tablespoon fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons palm sugar
- 4 tablespoons tamarind juice (use about a small ping pong ball size of tamarind pulp and mix with water to extract the juice)
- 1 clove garlic (minced)
- 1 teaspoon dried chili flakes
- 1 tablespoon ground peanut
- 1 tablespoon oil
Instructions
- Deep-fried the eggs until the skin turns brown. Dish out and slice into halves. Arrange them on a plate. Deep fried the shredded shallots until golden brown, remove and place on paper towel to absorb oil.
- Heat up a sauce pan, pour in the oil and saute the minced garlic until light brown. Add the dried chili flakes, ground peanut, do a quick stir, and follow by the tamarind juice, palm sugar, and fish sauce. Bring it to boil and pour the sauce on top of the eggs. Top with fried shallots and scallion/cilantro. Serve hot with steamed white rice.
Notes
Nutrition
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Really delicious. I never had this before (in restaurants or what brief time I’ve spent in Thailand) so it was a pleasant surprise. I love fried-boiled eggs and spicy sauce so it was definitely my style. The main challenge is to peel the eggs perfectly and my eggs stuck to the (stainless) frying pot a little. I think being patient and boiling them far enough in advance is critical for presentation, but they are so delicious and look great smothered with fried scallions. Will make again at the earliest opportunity!
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Hi Bee, Greetings from Regensburg. I only have tamarind powder here. What is the ratio shall I use ? Thank you so much and stay healthy.
Hi Linda, I am not sure because I haven’t used tamarind powder. You just have to estimate yourself.
Son-in-Law Eggs (Khai Luk Khoei), sometimes are made when a man visits her parents before marriage and is a reminder to the man, if he marries, and treats the woman badly, his privates could end up looking like deep fried eggs ;)