Recipe: Tasty Pad Thai

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Pad Thai. This is a bare bones recipe for Pad Thai. Add thinly sliced chicken and some shrimp and fried tofu and fry for a couple minutes. If using, cut the banana leaf into round shapes using an overturned bowl.

Pad Thai S., but it actually has Chinese origins. The dish's full name— kway teow pad thai —translates roughly to "Thai-style stir-fried noodles." The cooking method of stir-frying meat, vegetables and noodles together with sauce is more Chinese than Thai. Pad Thai is Thai stir-fried noodles with rice stick noodles, shrimp, chicken, fried tofu, eggs and Pad Thai sauce. You can cook Pad Thai using 22 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Pad Thai

  1. Prepare 8 oz of Rice sticks (dried rice noodles).
  2. Prepare 1 lb of Chicken/pork/beef/shrimp (choose one).
  3. It's 1 of as needed Oil.
  4. Prepare 4 tbsp of Garlic (minced).
  5. Prepare 1 tbsp of Egg.
  6. It's 1 cup of Carrot.
  7. Prepare 1 small of Onion.
  8. Prepare of Sauce.
  9. You need 1 cup of 3/8 chicken broth.
  10. Prepare 4 1/2 tbsp of Fish sauce.
  11. You need 6 tbsp of Brown sugar.
  12. You need 3 tbsp of White sugar.
  13. Prepare 6 tbsp of Tomato ketchup.
  14. It's 3 tbsp of Soy sauce.
  15. You need 3 tbsp of Lime juice.
  16. Prepare 1 cup of 1/8 peanut butter (if desired).
  17. It's of Accents.
  18. Prepare 2 tbsp of Peanuts.
  19. Prepare 1 bunch of Green onion (chopped).
  20. You need 1 large of Lime (cut in 4-6 slices for garnish).
  21. You need 1 cup of Bean sprouts.
  22. Prepare 1 tsp of Red pepper (crushed, use for garnish).

The noodles are topped with crushed peanuts and served with fresh chives, lime wedges, with condiments such as sugar, fish sauce and chili powder on the side. Pad Thai is like a warm blanket. 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 meal. Pad Thai is a Thai stir-fry dish made with tender rice noodles, cooked shrimp, crunchy, warm peanuts, scrambled egg and bean sprouts all mixed together with a creamy sweet and spicy sauce.

Pad Thai instructions

  1. Put noodles in pot with water and set on stove on lowest temp for 1 hour check occasionally to make sure they do NOT get over cooked.
  2. While noodles cook, put all ingredients for sauce together and let come to a small boil then let simmer..
  3. Put the remaining ingredients in another pan and let simmer together while watching and stirring so not to let the food burn. Use oil if needed..
  4. When noodles are done, drain BUT DONT PUT BACK IN POT YET! Put all together EXCEPT NOODLES then add noodles to desired dryness. I enjoy less noodles for more soup like..

In a nutshell, Pad Thai is a rice-noodle based stir-fry that generally incorporates eggs, tamarind, fish sauce, and veggies as a base. The rich and flavorful dish often features chicken, beef, shrimp or fish amongst other animal-derived proteins. Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It's made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein - the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp. Pad Thai is stir-fried rice noodle dish ubiquitous with Thai cuisine in the United States, but it wasn't always popular in Thailand.