Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy, accessible pad thai. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This Pad Thai recipe is hands-down one of the easiest, tastiest recipes on the blog. Pad Thai is believed to have originated in Thailand during World War II. It was born out of a combination of a rice shortage and Thailand's prime minister wanting to create a national dish.
Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy, accessible pad thai using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
- Take 8 oz pad thai noodles, (sometimes labeled as pho noodles, but get the wide ones - they're about 1/3" wide uncooked)
- Take 2 eggs, whisked and lightly seasoned with salt
- Get 2 cups mung bean sprouts
- Take 1/2 lb. protein of choice (I prefer shrimp or chicken), cut in bite-sized pieces and lightly seasoned w/ salt & a pinch of sugar
- Make ready oil for frying
- Take 2 green onions, cut into 1.5"long segments
- Get 4 lime wedges to serve on the side
- Take cilantro, chopped, for garnish
- Take For the sauce:
- Prepare 3 Tablespoons ketchup
- Take 2.5-3 Tablespoons fish sauce
- Prepare 1 Tablespoon lime juice
- Get 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- Make ready 1-2 Tablespoons brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown)
- Take 2 cloves garlic, minced
- Take 1 Tablespoon crushed chili flakes, or to taste (I'd say this makes the dish about a 7 on the heat scale)
It's a quick and easy alternative to takeout that any beginner cook can accomplish, but it's important to note that we skipped some traditional ingredients like dried shrimp, tamarind, pressed tofu, and bean sprouts. As pad thai is one of the most popular street foods in Thailand, she encouraged us to approach it at home the way the street vendors do: the prep is already done, so you can finish it in a flash. First, she wants you to make the sauce in advance because the ingredients are not standardized. Thai noodles are a type of rice noodle.
Steps to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
- There are 2 options for prepping the noodles: 1) If you have time, soak the noodles in enough cold water to cover for 1 hour and then drain well. This results in a better texture. OR 2) Soak the noodles in enough hot water to cover for about 12 to 15 minutes or so, until all the noodles go completely limp when you pull them up by the handful out of the water, and drain well.
- Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly to incorporate all the seasonings evenly.
- In a large wok or non-stick pan, bring a Tablespoon of oil up to medium high heat and saute/stir-fry your protein until cooked through. Set aside.
- Scramble your eggs and set aside with the other protein.
- Turn the heat to high, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons of oil to the pan, wait about 15 seconds to heat it up, and add in the noodles. Let the noodles sit for about 30 seconds so as not to disperse the heat then give a toss to redistribute them. Do this 3 or 4 times before adding in the rest of your ingredients. If your noodles start to stick together a little at this point, don't worry. When you add the liquid from the sauce, they'll separate again as you stir.
- Add in the rest of your ingredients - meat, eggs, sprouts, green onions, and sauce - and toss thoroughly to season each noodle strand.
- If you like some crispy/charred bits to your noodles, now is the time to add another Tablespoon of oil to the pan, and just let your noodles sit for a minute and a half to two minutes. This will crisp up some of the edges.
- Garnish to taste with chopped cilantro and serve with lime wedges. The added fresh lime juice gives the dish extra zip.
- Enjoy! :)
Any thick rice noodle can be substituted in this dish. To add more protein to this meal, mix in a portion of sautéed chicken or shrimp. Prepare the noodles, cook the chicken, add veggie and sauce, cook scrambled eggs and stir in noodles. Here is a summary of the cooking process: Tips and Secrets for Making Chicken Pad Thai. If you love chicken pad Thai but are not sure how to make it at home, then this quick recipe is for you.
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