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Best Traditional Pad Thai Recipe

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The flavors in this delicious pad thai recipe are amazing. This combination of rice noodles, garlic, chicken or whatever protein you like, egg, and more, is really delicious and it’s easy to prepare.

Ingredients

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  • 4 oz (115g) dried rice stick noodles
  • 6 tablespoons vegetable oil
  • 1/3 cup fish sauce
  • ½ cup (125 ml) tamarind juice concentrate (not tamarind paste!)
  • ½ cup (100g) palm sugar
  • 8 minced garlic cloves
  • Generous handful thinly sliced raw chicken, beef, pork, shrimp and/or tofu
  • 1 thinly sliced red onion
  • 1 egg
  • Generous handful julienne (matchstick-cut) carrot
  • 3 green onions (spring onions) cut diagonally in ½ inch (1 ¼ cm) pieces
  • Generous handful fresh beansprouts
  • Generous handful cilantro (fresh coriander)
  • Generous handful chopped toasted peanuts
  • Lime wedges, to serve

Instructions

  1. Soak the noodles in cold water or or boil until a little firmer than al dente.
  2. Rinse with cold water and set aside.
  3. Stir the fish sauce, tamarind, palm sugar and half the garlic in a pan over a low-medium heat.
  4. Cook it until the sugar has dissolved.
  5. Heat half the oil in a wok and cook your meat/seafood/tofu until done.
  6. Set to one side.
  7. Add the rest of the oil to the wok and add the rest of the garlic plus the red onion.
  8. Stir-fry for a minute.
  9. Add the noodles and stir-fry for a minute.
  10. Add a few tablespoons of the sauce and keep stirring until everything is well mixed.
  11. Now add the cooked meat, seafood and/or tofu and stir-fry for 3 minutes.
  12. Push the pad thai up one side of the wok and crack an egg into the other side, then scramble it for 30 seconds.
  13. Add the green onions, carrot and half the beansprouts and cook for 1 minute, mixing everything together in the wok.
  14. Now taste the pad thai.
  15. If the noodles are not soft yet, cook for another minute.
  16. You can add more sauce if it lacks flavor or some Thai chili powder if it lacks heat.
  17. Serve garnished with the rest of the beansprouts, some cilantro, peanuts and lime wedges.

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