Pad Thai
Pad Thai

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Pad Thai is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my whole 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. 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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
  1. Get Pad thai sauce
  2. Take 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
  3. Take 9 tbsp water
  4. Take 4 tbsp tamarind paste
  5. Make ready 6 tbsp fish sauce
  6. Take Pad thai
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
  8. Prepare 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
  9. Make ready 3 gloves garlic, minced
  10. Prepare 1 onion, roughly chopped
  11. Get 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
  12. Prepare Vegetable oil
  13. Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
  14. Take Dried chili flakes
  15. Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
  16. Get 2 eggs, beaten
  17. Take Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
  18. Prepare 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:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. Add the bean sprout, spring onion, half of the peanuts and the seared shrimps (if using). Toss well then turn off the heat.
  7. Serve warm with additional sidings of peanuts, chili flakes, bean sprouts, lime wedges (and some sugar according to taste).

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