How to Make Perfect Pad Thai

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Pad Thai is one of the world's most beloved noodle dishes. Along with Thai Green Curry and Red Curry, this is the dish by which every Thai restaurant is measured. 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. It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts.

Pad Thai is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Pad Thai is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
3. Prepare 9 tbsp water
4. Get 4 tbsp tamarind paste
5. Get 6 tbsp fish sauce
6. Prepare Pad thai
7. Make ready 2 tbsp dried shrimp
8. Make ready 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. Make ready 1 onion, roughly chopped
11. Make ready 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
12. Get Vegetable oil
13. Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
14. Make ready Dried chili flakes
15. Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
16. Take 2 eggs, beaten
17. Prepare Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
18. Prepare 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped

You may want to start with less pepper, and work your way up. 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 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.

Instructions 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).

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 probably one of the most popular Thai dishes abroad. Pad Thai (or Phad Thai) has been one of my favourite dishes for a while now. Pad Thai is one of these dishes that is not that difficult to veganise.

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