Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pad Thai is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Pad thai, or phad thai, is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served as a street food and at most restaurants in Thailand as part of the country's cuisine. Pad Thai is one of the world's most beloved noodle dishes. Along with Thai Green Curry and Red Curry, this is the dish by which every Thai restaurant is measured.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Prepare Pad thai sauce
- Get 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Prepare 9 tbsp water
- Prepare 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Prepare 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Make ready Pad thai
- Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
- Make ready 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
- Get 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Get 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Make ready Vegetable oil
- Prepare Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Take Dried chili flakes
- Take 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Take 2 eggs, beaten
- Get Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Make ready 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
It's a comfort food of our age, with those chewy noodles, crunchy peanuts, the sweet and tangy sauce, and plenty of chives, bean sprouts, and chicken to make it a full. Pad Thai with no compromise, this is what the real stuff should be like! Well-balanced flavours and not overly sweet. Lots of ingredients but SO worth it!
Instructions to make Pad Thai:
- To prepare the sauce, caramelize the palm sugar on a sauce pan over low heat but make sure not to push it too dark. Then add the water to stop the caramelization. It will immediately harden the sugar syrup but will eventually dissolve once the its heated up again. Add the rest of the ingredients then continue simmer until the sugar has been dissolved again. Set aside.
- Sear your choice of protein over medium heat. If you are using shrimp, take it out of the pan after searing so as not to over cook it.
- Add a little more oil and toss in the garlic, onion, dried shrimps, tofu and chili flakes. Saute for a couple of minutes until fragrant.
- Increase the heat and toss in noodles and sauce. Keep tossing until sauce has been absorbed. You may add a little water if the noodles is undercooked.
- Once noodles are cooked, push everything at one side of the pan. Put a little oil on the empty space and cooked the egg. Break the yoke then once slight cooked, toss in the noodles until all is well combined.
- Add the bean sprout, spring onion, half of the peanuts and the seared shrimps (if using). Toss well then turn off the heat.
- Serve warm with additional sidings of peanuts, chili flakes, bean sprouts, lime wedges (and some sugar according to taste).
Pad Thai - This Pad Thai recipe is how you actually find it in Bangkok and comes from testing hundreds of different variations from food carts all over the city. If you love Thai food, especially authentic Pad Thai, you need this Pad Thai sauce recipe in your Did you know Pad Thai is one of the world's most popular foods? A global phenomenon, Pad Thai is. Pad Thai is Thai stir-fried noodles with rice stick noodles, shrimp, chicken, fried tofu, eggs and Pad Thai sauce. The noodles are topped with crushed peanuts and served with fresh chives, lime wedges.
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