Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, easy, accessible pad thai. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This Pad Thai recipe is hands-down one of the easiest, tastiest recipes on the blog. Pad Thai is believed to have originated in Thailand during World War II. It was born out of a combination of a rice shortage and Thailand's prime minister wanting to create a national dish.
Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have easy, accessible pad thai using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
- Take 8 oz pad thai noodles, (sometimes labeled as pho noodles, but get the wide ones - they're about 1/3" wide uncooked)
- Prepare 2 eggs, whisked and lightly seasoned with salt
- Prepare 2 cups mung bean sprouts
- Take 1/2 lb. protein of choice (I prefer shrimp or chicken), cut in bite-sized pieces and lightly seasoned w/ salt & a pinch of sugar
- Prepare oil for frying
- Prepare 2 green onions, cut into 1.5"long segments
- Make ready 4 lime wedges to serve on the side
- Prepare cilantro, chopped, for garnish
- Take For the sauce:
- Take 3 Tablespoons ketchup
- Prepare 2.5-3 Tablespoons fish sauce
- Take 1 Tablespoon lime juice
- Get 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1-2 Tablespoons brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown)
- Take 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 Tablespoon crushed chili flakes, or to taste (I'd say this makes the dish about a 7 on the heat scale)
And if you don't rightly give two toot-a-loots, let's just talk about this super easy Pad Thai for a smidge. It's light, it's vegetarian, it's bright, it's sproutasprarian. (shhhh) Weeknight friendly and waistline happy. It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts and scrambled eggs tossed in a delicious homemade pad thai sauce that is so good it tastes like it. As pad thai is one of the most popular street foods in Thailand, she encouraged us to approach it at home the way the street vendors do: the prep is already done, so you can finish it in a flash.
Instructions to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
- There are 2 options for prepping the noodles: 1) If you have time, soak the noodles in enough cold water to cover for 1 hour and then drain well. This results in a better texture. OR 2) Soak the noodles in enough hot water to cover for about 12 to 15 minutes or so, until all the noodles go completely limp when you pull them up by the handful out of the water, and drain well.
- Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly to incorporate all the seasonings evenly.
- In a large wok or non-stick pan, bring a Tablespoon of oil up to medium high heat and saute/stir-fry your protein until cooked through. Set aside.
- Scramble your eggs and set aside with the other protein.
- Turn the heat to high, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons of oil to the pan, wait about 15 seconds to heat it up, and add in the noodles. Let the noodles sit for about 30 seconds so as not to disperse the heat then give a toss to redistribute them. Do this 3 or 4 times before adding in the rest of your ingredients. If your noodles start to stick together a little at this point, don't worry. When you add the liquid from the sauce, they'll separate again as you stir.
- Add in the rest of your ingredients - meat, eggs, sprouts, green onions, and sauce - and toss thoroughly to season each noodle strand.
- If you like some crispy/charred bits to your noodles, now is the time to add another Tablespoon of oil to the pan, and just let your noodles sit for a minute and a half to two minutes. This will crisp up some of the edges.
- Garnish to taste with chopped cilantro and serve with lime wedges. The added fresh lime juice gives the dish extra zip.
- Enjoy! :)
A wide variety of easy pad thai options are available to you, such as salty. Everyone needs a great Pad Thai in their life. This quick and easy version is a weeknight favourite when time is tight. Also an excellent way to introduce new vegetables. Overall, this dish was easy to make with cheap accessible veggies.
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