Pad Thai
Pad Thai

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Pad Thai is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pad thai using 19 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
  1. Prepare 200-250 g Dry ‘Pad Thai’ Rice Noodles
  2. Prepare 2 Eggs
  3. Prepare Prawns, Squid, Chicken, Pork OR Firm Tofu 500g in total
  4. Prepare 1 Onion *OR Shallots 2 to 3
  5. Prepare 2 cloves Garlic *finely chopped
  6. Take 1 small piece Ginger *finely chopped
  7. Make ready 1 Red Chilli *OR 1/2 teaspoon Dry Chilli Flakes
  8. Take 1 cup Bean Sprouts
  9. Get 1/4 cupful Spring Onion / Garlic Chives
  10. Take Canola Oil for cooking
  11. Prepare Coriander Leaves for serving
  12. Make ready Chopped Toasted Peanuts
  13. Take Lime *cut into wedges
  14. Make ready <Sauce>
  15. Get 2 tablespoons Tamarind Paste *OR Lime/Lemon Juice, Rice Vinegar
  16. Prepare 2-3 tablespoons Brown Sugar
  17. Get 2 tablespoons Fish Sauce
  18. Make ready 1 tablespoon Soy Saucer *optional
  19. Get 1/4 cup Water

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. Combine all the sauce ingredients in a bowl.
  2. Prepare the proteins and vegetables. They will be cooked with the noodles, so I recommend to thinly slice the meat, tofu, onions. Lightly whisk the eggs in a separate bowl.
  3. Now you can start to prepare the noodles. Place noodles in a large bowl, pour over plenty of boiling water and soak for 5 minutes, then drain and rinse under cold water, and drain again. *Note: Do not make them absolutely soft at this stage.
  4. Add 1 tablespoon Oil to the heated wok or a very large frying pan, cook Eggs like scrambled egg and transfer to a plate. Add a little more Oil, cook Chicken or Pork (or other meat), if you use any, and Onion (Shallots), Garlic, Ginger and Chilli, then add Prawns or Squid (or other seafood), if you use any, and stir-fry until almost cooked through.
  5. Bring back the scrambles egg to the wok. Then add Bean Sprouts, Tofu, if you use it, and the noodles, then the sauce.
  6. Toss gently for about 1 minute, then add Spring Onion or Garlic Chives. Toss to combine then remove from heat.
  7. Sprinkled with Peanuts, Coriander Leaves and extra Chilli only if you like them, and serve with Lime wedges.

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. If you love Thai food, especially authentic Pad Thai, you need this Pad Thai sauce recipe in your Did you know Pad Thai is one of the world's most popular foods? A global phenomenon, Pad Thai is. This is a traditional Pad Thai recipe used by a friend's mother.

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