Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. It is typically made with rice noodles, chicken, beef or tofu, peanuts, a scrambled egg, and bean sprouts, among other vegetables. Pad Thai is one of the world's most beloved noodle dishes.
Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Pad Thai is something which I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook pad thai using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Prepare 200-250 g Dry ‘Pad Thai’ Rice Noodles
- Prepare 2 Eggs
- Make ready Prawns, Squid, Chicken, Pork OR Firm Tofu 500g in total
- Make ready 1 Onion *OR Shallots 2 to 3
- Make ready 2 cloves Garlic *finely chopped
- Get 1 small piece Ginger *finely chopped
- Get 1 Red Chilli *OR 1/2 teaspoon Dry Chilli Flakes
- Get 1 cup Bean Sprouts
- Prepare 1/4 cupful Spring Onion / Garlic Chives
- Get Canola Oil for cooking
- Prepare Coriander Leaves for serving
- Get Chopped Toasted Peanuts
- Prepare Lime *cut into wedges
- Get <Sauce>
- Prepare 2 tablespoons Tamarind Paste *OR Lime/Lemon Juice, Rice Vinegar
- Get 2-3 tablespoons Brown Sugar
- Take 2 tablespoons Fish Sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon Soy Saucer *optional
- Prepare 1/4 cup Water
This restaurant-quality Pad Thai recipe is surprisingly easy to make at home and customize with whatever noodles, proteins, veggies, and spice level you prefer. 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. 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.
Steps 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.
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