These boiled eggs with Thai Dipping Sauce are a fresh zingy change to your boring eggs for breakfast. With seasoned lime juice and a fresh hit of heat, it will be a fresh change to your breakfast routine.
Keto-Friendly Thai Dipping Sauce
A Thai dipping sauce can be very simple, usually comprising of lime juice, fish sauce and sugar. Since I wanted to make a sugar-free version of this sauce, I wanted to make sure that erythritol and monkfruit would be sufficiently sweet, without getting any minty or cooling aftertastes.
Sure enough, the combination of erythritol and monk fruit worked perfectly! So for future reference, here is how to construct a sugar-free Thai dipping sauce:
- 6 parts lime juice
- 3 parts fish sauce
- 2 parts sweetener of choice (eg erythritol and monk fruit)
If you want to use 100% stevia, or 100% monk fruit, please refer to my Keto Substitutes For Specific Ingredients guide.
What Inspired This Dish?
As a musician, I would play other genres of music, then bring them together. This idea is exactly what has made many new genres what they are today. But I realised that I was not doing the same with my cooking.
In Australia, we are very influenced by cuisines from China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Korea, Thai, Japan, and many many other fantastic Asian countries. The problem is many don’t know how to cook these cuisines and rely heavily on takeaway food (generally because it’s so much easier to buy great Asian food than it is to learn how to cook it).
In my own little nieve cooking bubble, I have decided to become a jack of all cusines, and master the basics of different worldwide flavours, starting with Thai food, with the hope to one day be able to bring my own authentic combinations together.
Also, I’ve just been super inspired by Po, Brendan, Kahn and Jess on the latest Masterchef in Australia. Anyone else with me?
Most Helpful Thai Cookbooks
From my research, I decided to purchase Hot Thai Kitchen (by Pailin Chonchitnant) and Thailand: The Cookbook (by Jean-Pierre Gabriel). Hot Thai Kitchen is a little more helpful because it explains why and how Thai dishes are put together, whereas the later cookbook focuses more on diverse recipes.
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This Thai style boiled eggs with dipping sauce is inspired by Jean-Pierre Gabriel’s cookbook, but makes it low carb and corrects the amount of sauce needed for the number of boiled eggs that are made.
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Boiled Eggs with Thai Dipping Sauce
Ingredients
- 5 large eggs
- 1/4 cup green onions sliced, (scallions)
- 1 medium red cayenne chilli sliced, (remove seeds for mild)
- 2 Tbsp fresh lime juice
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1 tsp Monkfruit / Erythritol Sweetener
Instructions
- Place a medium sized pot 1/3 filled with water onto the stove. Bring to the boil
- Once water is boiling, gently place the eggs into the hot water, and cook for 5 minutes (8 minutes for hard boil)
- While the eggs are cooking, slice the green onions and chili, set aside. Into a small bowl, mix together the lime juice, fish sauce and erythritol
- Remove the eggs from the hot water, run under cold water for 1 minute and peal shells. Slice in half and place into a wide bowl.
- Place the lime dipping sauce into the middle, and cover with green onions and chili.
- Dip the eggs into the dipping sauce, and enjoy.
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Tips & Notes:
Keto-Friendly Thai Dipping Sauce
A Thai dipping sauce can be very simple, usually comprising of lime juice, fish sauce and sugar. Since I wanted to make a sugar-free version of this sauce, I wanted to make sure that erythritol and monkfruit would be sufficiently sweet, without getting any minty or cooling aftertastes. Sure enough, the combination of erythritol and monk fruit worked perfectly! So for future reference, here is how to construct a sugar-free Thai dipping sauce:- 6 parts lime juice
- 3 parts fish sauce
- 2 parts sweetener of choice (eg erythritol and monk fruit)
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What brand of fish sauce did you use when making this recipe?
I use squid brand fish sauce 🙂
what about celery i love celery just by itself
Delicious!!!!
I have a problem choking down eggs, but tonight I had the Deviled Egg Salad With Bacon for supper and it was great! As I was making it I kept thinking I wasn’t going to like it, but as soon as I had the sauce stirred up and tasted it, “bam” I loved it! That experience made me decide to try the Boiled Eggs with Thai Dipping Sauce, especially when I saw the dipping sauce. I’ve been missing that since I threw out the commercially prepared sauce I had on my shelf. I’m excited to try this recipe soon and taste that sauce. Thank you for the recipes!
Thanks, Margie! Honestly, you will love this recipe!