Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pad Thai is something which I have loved my entire life.
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. Poo's back FoodTubers and this time she's got a classic Pad Thai recipe to share with you. Fresh juicy prawns stir fired with tofu, crunchy veg and egg.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have pad thai using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Prepare 200-250 g Dry ‘Pad Thai’ Rice Noodles
- Take 2 Eggs
- Prepare Prawns, Squid, Chicken, Pork OR Firm Tofu 500g in total
- Get 1 Onion *OR Shallots 2 to 3
- Make ready 2 cloves Garlic *finely chopped
- Make ready 1 small piece Ginger *finely chopped
- Prepare 1 Red Chilli *OR 1/2 teaspoon Dry Chilli Flakes
- Prepare 1 cup Bean Sprouts
- Take 1/4 cupful Spring Onion / Garlic Chives
- Prepare Canola Oil for cooking
- Take Coriander Leaves for serving
- Make ready Chopped Toasted Peanuts
- Take Lime *cut into wedges
- Make ready <Sauce>
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Tamarind Paste *OR Lime/Lemon Juice, Rice Vinegar
- Take 2-3 tablespoons Brown Sugar
- Make ready 2 tablespoons Fish Sauce
- Take 1 tablespoon Soy Saucer *optional
- Make ready 1/4 cup Water
Lots of ingredients but SO worth it! It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts. 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.
Instructions to make Pad Thai:
- Combine all the sauce ingredients in a bowl.
- Prepare the proteins and vegetables. They will be cooked with the noodles, so I recommend to thinly slice the meat, tofu, onions. Lightly whisk the eggs in a separate bowl.
- Now you can start to prepare the noodles. Place noodles in a large bowl, pour over plenty of boiling water and soak for 5 minutes, then drain and rinse under cold water, and drain again. *Note: Do not make them absolutely soft at this stage.
- Add 1 tablespoon Oil to the heated wok or a very large frying pan, cook Eggs like scrambled egg and transfer to a plate. Add a little more Oil, cook Chicken or Pork (or other meat), if you use any, and Onion (Shallots), Garlic, Ginger and Chilli, then add Prawns or Squid (or other seafood), if you use any, and stir-fry until almost cooked through.
- Bring back the scrambles egg to the wok. Then add Bean Sprouts, Tofu, if you use it, and the noodles, then the sauce.
- Toss gently for about 1 minute, then add Spring Onion or Garlic Chives. Toss to combine then remove from heat.
- Sprinkled with Peanuts, Coriander Leaves and extra Chilli only if you like them, and serve with Lime wedges.
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. Pad Thai is stir-fried rice noodle dish ubiquitous with Thai cuisine in the United States, but it wasn't With World War II nearing, the Thai government created the dish to promote a sense of national unity. 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. This is a traditional Pad Thai recipe used by a friend's mother.
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