Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pad thai. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice 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. Poo's back FoodTubers and this time she's got a classic Pad Thai recipe to share with you.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- Get Pad thai sauce
- Make ready 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Prepare 9 tbsp water
- Get 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Get 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Get 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
- Take 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Get 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Make ready 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Take Vegetable oil
- Make ready Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Get Dried chili flakes
- Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Prepare 2 eggs, beaten
- Prepare Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Take 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
Pad Thai is one of the world's most beloved noodle dishes. Here's an everyday Pad Thai recipe that really does taste just as good as takeout and you'll find everything you need at the supermarket. 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. It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts.
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).
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. 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. This is a traditional Pad Thai recipe used by a friend's mother. You can use chicken, pork, beef, tofu, or a combination.
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