The Best Pad Thai 4ever
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:
- 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
- In your wok or a big pot, roast your peanuts
- Then, add in oil, garlic, tofu/shrimp and green onions
- When they are cooked, add the cooked noodles to the wok
- Pour the sauce over the noodles and gentle mix the ingredients together (Be careful not to break all the noodles!)
- Make room for the eggs by pushing all the noodles to aside. Crack and scramble the egg
- Add the bean sprouts
- Finally, taste your noodles- add some ground pepper and more fish sauce if you want
- DONE! Garnish it with a wedge of lime, fresh green onions and some peanuts
- ENJOY