Pad Thai.
Hello everybody, it's Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we're going to prepare a distinctive dish, pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It's easy, it's quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Pad Thai is something that I have loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:
- {Prepare of Pad thai sauce.
- {Get of packed palm sugar, roughly chopped.
- {Get of water.
- {Take of tamarind paste.
- {Prepare of fish sauce.
- {Take of Pad thai.
- {Make ready of dried shrimp.
- {Take of dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces.
- {Prepare of gloves garlic, minced.
- {Make ready of onion, roughly chopped.
- {Take of firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried.
- {Take of Vegetable oil.
- {Make ready of Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein.
- {Take of Dried chili flakes.
- {Take of cuts bean sprouts.
- {Take of eggs, beaten.
- {Make ready of Spring onions, cut into 2-inch.
- {Prepare of cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped.
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)..
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