Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. 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 in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Make ready Pad thai sauce
- Get 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Make ready 9 tbsp water
- Get 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Take 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Prepare Pad thai
- Make ready 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
- Get 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Prepare 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Get Vegetable oil
- Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Take Dried chili flakes
- Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Make ready 2 eggs, beaten
- Get Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Make ready 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
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:
- 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).
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