Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Make ready Pad thai sauce
- Get 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
- Get 9 tbsp water
- Prepare 4 tbsp tamarind paste
- Get 6 tbsp fish sauce
- Get Pad thai
- Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
- Take 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
- Prepare 3 gloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 onion, roughly chopped
- Prepare 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
- Take Vegetable oil
- Take Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
- Get Dried chili flakes
- Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
- Get 2 eggs, beaten
- Prepare Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
- Make ready 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped
Instructions 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).
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