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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 25 Minutes |
Ready In: 25 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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This recipe comes from my Thai cookbook but is always a hit with my friends and family ! Enjoy.. Ingredients:
1 lime, cut in 4 wedges for garnish |
5 garllic cloves, pressed |
1 onion finely chopped |
1 bag of thai rice or glass noodles (400 grams) soaking in hot water for 5 |
minutes). |
unsalted peanuts, crushed and cooked as in toasted in oven till golden |
brown for a few minutes |
shrimp or chicken about 2 filets chicken breast, if chicken cubed, small pieces, you can cook and |
cut up ahead of time, saves time or shrimp which i prefer |
white soja sprouts, uncooked, for decoration at the end , optional |
1 egg |
thai chili pepper, for adding at the end if you like piquante |
paprika powder |
lots of olive oil or cooking oil |
thai fish sauce (3 tbsp.) |
tamarind juice or tamarind pulp that you've soaked in hot water ( 4 tbsp) |
white sugar ( 4 tbsp) |
wok or skillet |
Directions:
1. Soak uncooked thai noodles in hot water for 5 minutes.
2. Heat up your wok with 2 _tbsp. oil and add in your onion, 3/4 of it and all garlic cloves _pressed, stir until just lightly golden and then add in your softened rice noodles..
3. stir and let soften even more for a few minutes with _garlic and onion, take the whole thing out and put in bowl.
4. Add _another 2 Tbsp. oil in wok or skillet, add tons of paprika when dark red , add in your rice noodles and stir, you can then add your _cooked shrimp or chicken and add following sauce , which have been _mixed together in small bowl seperately : _3 Tbsp. fish sauce +4 Tbsp.white sugar+ 4 Tbsp.tamarind juice .
5. Add the sauce to the noodles and meat , stir for a few minutes, so _rice noodles are not sticking and then once again take out the noodles _and put in bowl.
6. Add yet another 1-2 Tbsp. oil to wok or skillet, crack an egg in wok _and stir quickly, so egg is in little strips, cooked .
7. . Add the thai rice noodles and stir in with egg.
8. I always add a _second portion of the above sauce (fish +sugar+ tamarind juice with _same amount as above) to give more taste to the pad thai.
9. Stir for 2 more minutes.
10. In plates, garnish with fresh chopped onion (what's left over) , chopped toasted peanuts, washed but uncooked soja sprouts, _garnish of lime to splash on when ready to eat .
11. Enjoy
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