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Pad thai

Pad Thai recipe

Pad Thai is served in almost ALL restaurants in Thailand. It’s stir-fried rice noodles, made with chicken or prawn or tofu and tamarind sauce! Check out my recipe below.
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Cook Time 1 hour
Servings 3 servings

Ingredients
  

Pad Thai

  • 300 g Pad Thai
  • 3 Large eggs
  • 400 g Pressed tofu
  • Large prawns
  • Dried chilli flakes
  • 4 cloves Garlic
  • 30 g Dried shrimps
  • a handful of Bean sprouts
  • Sunflower oil
  • 2 Limes
  • Shallots

Pad Thai sauce

  • 2 tbsp Cane sugar
  • 4 tbsp Water
  • 2 tbsp Fish sauce

Instructions
 

  • Soak the dried flat noodles (pad thai) in a large deep bowl with water for several hours until they soften.
  • Add palm sugar, water, fish sauce and tamarind paste to a saucepan; Keep stirring over medium heat then set it aside.
  • Heat a frying pan & add the sunflower oil. Sear prawsn ( as many as you want, we love prawns) and remove them from the pan.
  • Sauté shallots, minced garlic, chili, dried chili flakes, dried shrimps, pressed tofu over a frying pan.
  • Add noodles, bean sprouts, sauce and keep tossing.
  • Push noodles to one side; add 3 eggs on the empty space, keep stirring until the eggs are cooked. Toss the eggs into noodles.
  • Serve immediately. Divide among three flats. Garnish with spring onion & squeeze lime juice over the noodles.