My Favorite Pad Thai Recipie By: Ju Young Park

This weekend, try my favorite Pad Thai recipe. It is yummy, healthy and you can cook enough to last you the whole week!

Ingredients (For 2-3 servings-total 40 minutes cooking time)

(Most ingredients can be found in Asian/Indian grocery stores)

For sauce:

• 4 tbsp. of tamarind
• 4 tbsp. of sugar
• 8 tbsp. of fish sauce
• 1 tbsp. of dried chili pepper

The rest:

• ½ of package rice noodles
• Some peanuts
• Cooking oil
• 3 cloves of garlic
• 500g of shrimp or extra-firm tofu
• Green onions
• 1 eggs
• 1 cup of bean sprouts
• Ground pepper
• Lime

Steps:

1. Soak the rice noodles in hot water and set it aside for a couple of minutes. Check back frequently for the right texture- it should be flexible but never mushy! When you have the right texture, run it through cold water to stop the cooking and set it aside for later
2. In your wok or a big pot, roast your peanuts
3. Then, add in oil, garlic, tofu/shrimp and green onions
4. When they are cooked, add the cooked noodles to the wok
5. Pour the sauce over the noodles and gentle mix the ingredients together (Be careful not to break all the noodles!)

6. Make room for the eggs by pushing all the noodles to aside. Crack and scramble the egg
7. Add the bean sprouts
8. Finally, taste your noodles- add some ground pepper and more fish sauce if you want
9. DONE! Garnish it with a wedge of lime, fresh green onions and some peanuts
10. ENJOY

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