Pad Thai
Pad Thai

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, pad thai. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Pad Thai is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are 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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
  1. Make ready Pad thai sauce
  2. Get 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
  3. Prepare 9 tbsp water
  4. Prepare 4 tbsp tamarind paste
  5. Make ready 6 tbsp fish sauce
  6. Get Pad thai
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
  8. Take 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
  9. Take 3 gloves garlic, minced
  10. Prepare 1 onion, roughly chopped
  11. Take 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
  12. Prepare Vegetable oil
  13. Prepare Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
  14. Prepare Dried chili flakes
  15. Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
  16. Get 2 eggs, beaten
  17. Make ready Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
  18. Get 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped

Lots of ingredients but SO worth it! 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. 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 is believed to have originated in Thailand during World War II.

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).

It was born out of a combination of a rice shortage and Thailand's prime minister wanting to create a national dish. 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. 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?

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