Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Pad Thai is something that I’ve 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 recipe, we have to 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:
- Take Pad thai sauce
- Prepare 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Make ready 9 tbsp water
- Take 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Prepare 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Prepare Pad thai
- Get 2 tbsp dried shrimp
- Take 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
- Prepare 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Make ready 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Take 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Take Vegetable oil
- Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Get Dried chili flakes
- Get 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Prepare 2 eggs, beaten
- Get Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Take 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
This is a traditional Pad Thai recipe used by a friend's mother. You can use chicken, pork, beef, tofu, or a combination. You may want to start with less pepper, and work your way up. 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.
Instructions 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).
It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts. 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.
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