Best Pad Thai

Servings
2
Prep
15 m
Cook
10 m

Recipe By: Thai Chef

Our Pad Thai recipe is a great choice for Taste of Thailand. Pad Thai is the ultimate street food. Asian street food cooks work with limited space, ingredients and tools they need to specialise in a best dish just to stay in business. They cook the same dish day-after-day, year-after-year, constantly perfecting it.

Ingredients

150 g Thai rice noodles
1 cup mix vegetable – eggplant, capsicum, carrot, mushroom
1 pcs scramble egg
200 g shrimp
200 g lean chicken, beef or pork thinly sliced
50 g tofu sliced
1 tasp fresh curry paste
2 tasp canola oil
1 tasp tamarind paste
2 tasp palm sugar or white sugar
2 tasp sweet soy sauce or ordinary soy
1 tasp fish sauce
1 pinch pepper
1/2 cup garnish bean spouts, Chinese chives, spring onion
1/2 tasp ground chilli
some pcs limes and basil leaf

Directions

1

Soak the dry noodles in lukewarm or room temperature water. Rinse the bean sprouts and save half for serving fresh.
2

Julienne vegetables and tofu into thick long matchsticks. Cut the Chinese chives or spring onion into 1 inch long pieces.
3

Place a wok or pan on high heat and toast the peanuts. Then pour 2 table spoons of vegetable oil in. Add fresh curry paste then the meat and prawn. Cook well. Remove to a plate.
4

Bring the pan back to the stove add oil and vegetables and cook them until they are soft. Please note the eggplant need to go in first and slowly other vegetables. Remove the vegetable.
5

Bring the ban back to the stove add some oil and scamble the egg. Remove the egg.
6

Bring the pan back to the stove, add some oil then add noodles. Fry the noodle for couple of minutes on the high heat then add some water or your sauce now. Remove.
7

Bring back the pan to the stove add everything together and mix well. Taste. When you get the right taste. Sprinkle white pepper around. Add bean sprouts and chives. Stir a few more times.
8

Pour onto the serving plate and sprinkle with ground pepper and herbs. Condiments such as sugar, chili pepper, vinegar and fish sauce are available at your table for your personal taste. Some people add more lime, chili pepper or sugar at the table.
9

Notes: Soaked noodles in warm water for 20 mins to make them soft. Tamarind adds some flavour and acidity, but you can substitute white vinegar. Firm tofu can be found at most Asian groceries. The original Pad Thai recipe use crushed roasted peanuts