Pad Thai Recipe

Pad Thai Recipe

Pad Thai is a famous Thai recipe in which rice sticks or rice noodles are used.Its actually made with rice sticks along with other ingredients like peanuts,tamarind,soy sauce,chilly sauce and other veggies and also meat or chicken and eggs.Its has a beautiful combination of sweet,sour and salty taste.

Preparation Time - Soaking the rice sticks as per package instruction,other preparation 15 min.

Cooking Time- 20 min

Ingredients:-

1. Rice sticks around 8-10 oz

2. Sauce - 2 tablespoon of jaggery/gur or palm sugar or sugar + 2 teaspoon fish sauce+1 teaspoon tamarind concentrate or tamarind soaked in water and then strained and then used.

Adjust the sauce as per your taste.I used concentrated tamarind (ready made ) so just 1 teaspoon was alright for me.

3. Half crushed roasted peanuts ( I used around 1/4th cup )

4. 2 teaspoon chopped garlic.

5. 2 Spring Onions white part cut lengthwise and green parts chopped .

6. Radish cut lengthwise or cubed and soaked in a solution of white vinegar and sugar.(2 tablespoon vinegar and 1 teaspoon of sugar ).

7. Fresh Cilantro chopped for garnish.

8. Half of Lime for garnish.

9. 1 chopped fresh Thai  chilly or Indian chilly.

10. Sriracha or red chilly sauce as per your heat tolerance.

11. About 100 gram chicken marinated with little salt and black pepper.

12. 2 Eggs.

13. Bean sprouts ( 1cup )

14. Peanut oil or any vegetable/sunflower oil 3-4 teaspoon.

15. Salt as per your taste.

16. Red pepper or dry chilly flakes (Optional)

Preparation:-

1. Soak the Rice sticks as per the package instruction.

2. Prepare the sauce by dissolving jaggery in little hot water and then adding the fish sauce and tamarind concentrate.You can also add the sriracha or red chilly sauce now in the sauce mixture. I added it separately.

3. Pickle the radish in the vinegar and sugar solution as instructed above.

4. Chop or slice the vegetables as instructed above.

5. Marinate the chicken.

6. Roast and half crush the peanuts discarding the peanut peel or skin.

7. Scramble the egg and keep aside.( this time I did not scramble it separately ,I scrambled it when cooking the pad Thai and mixed with it ).

Cooking:-

1. Take an utensil(I used non stick ) and add oil .To it add the marinated chicken and let the chicken turn white .Then add the chopped garlic and cook.

2. when chicken is cooked and raw garlic smell disappears then add the white part of spring onion ,sauce and the soaked and drained rice sticks and mix.

3. next add the scrambled eggs and sriracha or red chilly sauce if you have not already mixed in the prepared sauce and the pickled radish ( add only the radish not the vinegar and sugar solution ).

4. Mix everything together and lastly add the bean sprouts,green parts of spring onion and red pepper flakes (optional ).

5. Serve hot with garnish of fresh cilantro or dhaniya patta,chopped fresh chilly,sprinkled peanuts and slice of fresh lime on the side.

Note :- 

1.The main taste of Pad Thai is the right balance of sweet,salty and sourness,so prepare the sauce as per your taste.

2. Be careful with the amount of salt you are adding as fish sauce is salty.

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