🐟 Pla rad prik (fried fish with chili sauce)

Name: Pla rad prik (fried fish with chili sauce)
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: Thailand
Ingredients: 1 whole fish such as sea bass or snapper (about 800 g), cleaned; Vegetable oil for deep-frying; 6 garlic cloves, chopped; 5 red chilies, chopped; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 3 tbsp palm or brown sugar; 3 tbsp tamarind water or lime juice; 4 tbsp water

Origin: Thailand

578kcal

per serving · 350 g

165kcal

per 100 g

52 gProtein15 g / 100 g

28 gFat8 g / 100 g

28 gCarbs8 g / 100 g

Pla rad prik is a whole fish deep-fried until the skin is crackling and the edges are crisp, then smothered in a glossy sauce of chilies, garlic, fish sauce and palm sugar. The sauce is sweet, salty and spicy, soaking into the crunchy fish. It is a centrepiece dish in Thai restaurants, shared with steamed jasmine rice.

Diets

✓

No pork

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Gluten-freeno wheat, barley or rye in a typical recipe

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Dairy-freeno milk, cheese, butter or yogurt in a typical recipe

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Low-carb8 g carbs per 100 g

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High protein15 g protein per 100 g — 36% of the calories

Not vegetarianbecause of: whole fish, fish sauce

Not veganbecause of: whole fish, fish sauce

Allergens

Contains (in a typical recipe):

⚠ Fish

What it is made of

whole fishchili saucegarlicfish saucesugar

Recipe

3 servings40 min

Ingredients

1 whole fish such as sea bass or snapper (about 800 g), cleaned
Vegetable oil for deep-frying
6 garlic cloves, chopped
5 red chilies, chopped
2 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp palm or brown sugar
3 tbsp tamarind water or lime juice
4 tbsp water

Method

Score the fish deeply on both sides and pat it very dry.
Deep-fry in hot oil (180 °C) for 6–8 minutes per side until crisp and golden; drain on paper.
In 1 tbsp oil fry the garlic and chilies for 1 minute.
Add fish sauce, sugar, tamarind and water and simmer until slightly syrupy.
Pour the sauce over the fish and serve with rice.

How to make it lighter

Bake or air-fry the fish instead of deep-frying to save a lot of oil.
Halve the sugar in the sauce: 1 tbsp sugar ≈ 50 kcal.
Eat the flesh and leave the oily, crisp skin.

History

Rad prik means “topped with chili” in Thai, and fried fish served this way is a staple of Thai restaurants and family meals; no specific origin is recorded.

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Values are estimates per 100 g for a typical recipe; home and restaurant versions vary. Diets and allergens are worked out from the ingredients of a typical recipe — always check with whoever cooked the dish. Not medical advice. Nutrition data: Me Nutrition dish database v13. How we count →