Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. For mine, 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 recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Pad Thai is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re 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 must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Make ready Pad thai sauce
- Get 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Take 9 tbsp water
- Prepare 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Take 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Get Pad thai
- Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
- Prepare 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
- Make ready 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Make ready 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Make ready Vegetable oil
- Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Get Dried chili flakes
- Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Take 2 eggs, beaten
- Get Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Take 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
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. Pad Thai is stir-fried rice noodle dish ubiquitous with Thai cuisine in the United States, but it wasn't always popular in Thailand. With World War II nearing, the Thai government created the dish to.
Steps 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 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 - 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. Pad Thai is probably one of the most popular Thai dishes abroad. This is a traditional Pad Thai recipe used by a friend's mother.
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