Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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. 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. (Chicken, steak, pork, shrimp, tofu and veggie-only options included below.).
Pad Thai is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Pad Thai is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook pad thai using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Prepare For Pad Thai Sauce
- Take 3 tablespoons thick tamarind paste
- Get 3 cloves garlic – minced
- Prepare 1 tsp red chilli paste
- Take 2 tbsp Fish sauce
- Take 1/4 cup jaggery
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Take Pad Thai Ingredients
- Take 250 g Shrimps
- Get 1 packet rice noodles preferably flat rice noodles
- Get 1 Egg
- Prepare 4 tbsp sesame / vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 onion sliced
- Make ready 5 cloves garlic finely chopped
- Prepare 4-5 spring onions whites sliced, and greens chopped
- Make ready 1/2 cup roasted peanuts roughly pounded
- Make ready to taste Salt
- Make ready Lemon wedges for garnishing
But each ingredient in pad thai contributes a flavour. Nothing in there is added just for "fluff" so the more you take away, the less complex the. It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts and scrambled eggs tossed in a delicious homemade pad thai sauce that is so good it tastes like it came. Add Pad Thai noodles to a large bowl and cover with just boiling water.
Steps to make Pad Thai:
- For Making Pad Thai sauce – in a saucepan, add all the ingredients given under the sauce. Mix well, and cook it until it reduces to a saucy consistency. In between, adjust the sweetness or tangyness as per your taste. Keep aside and let it cool.
- FBoil the noodles (a little underdone), rinse under cold water, drain and keep aside.
- Heat 3 tbsp oil In a deep frying pan. Add the shrimps and cook on high heat till they turn pink. Drain and keep aside.
- In the same pan, add the onion, and spring onion whites, and garlic and stir-fry. Take care not to burn them. - Add the noodles and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Add the prepared Pad Thai sauce, a little at a time, stirring continuously. Add Only that much sauce, so that the noodles are well coated and slightly wet.
- Add the shrimps and stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Move the contents of the pan to one side, Add a tbsp of oil in the centre of the pan, and crack an egg over it. Quickly scramble the egg and cook for a minute.
- Add the spring onions green stalks and the crushed peanuts, reserving a few for garnishing. Mix and stir-fry for a minute.
- Remove Pad Thai into a serving plate and garnish with crushed peanuts, spring onions (greens), a few shrimps and lemon wedges.
Stir and cover and cook according to package instructions (usually about Add noodles, Pad Thai sauce, bean sprouts, green onions, and peanuts and cook over medium-high heat, tossing occasionally (tongs are most useful). Pad Thai is stir-fried rice noodle dish ubiquitous with Thai cuisine in the United States, but it wasn't always popular in Thailand. Pad Thai sauce is made typically with these four basic ingredients: tamarind, sugar, rice vinegar, and fish sauce. This makes a sauce that's both sweet Peter swears by microwaving pad Thai to reheat it. You don't even have to add any water to the noodles.
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