How to Make Perfect Pad Thai

Pad Thai. 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. 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.

It's a comfort food of our age, with those chewy noodles, crunchy peanuts, the sweet and tangy sauce, and plenty of chives, bean sprouts. 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. Pad Thai with no compromise, this is what the real stuff should be like! You can have Pad Thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pad Thai

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

Well-balanced flavours and not overly sweet. Lots of ingredients but SO worth it! 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 instructions

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 probably one of the most popular Thai dishes abroad. 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. You may want to start with less pepper, and work your way up.