Pad Thai: Thai Style Noodle Stir Fry
Posted on May 14, 2007
Filed Under fried, noodles, thai food meals
ผัดไทย Pad Thai (Thai Style Noodle Stir-Fry)
Prepare:
14 big shrimps (peeled, de-veined and cooked)
2 handful thin noodle
3/4 cup cut yellow tofu
3 tbsp. good quality dried shrimp
1/4 cup salted radish (minced)
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1/2 tsp. vinegar
1 tbsp. water
1/4 cup a garlic-like vegetable of the genus Allium (cut 1 inch)
2 duck’s eggs
1 cup bean sprouts
1 tbsp. sliced red onion
1 tbsp. minced garlic
1 tsp. dried red chili powder
2 tbsp. roasted peanut (crushed)
1 tsp. sugar
Pad Thai Sauce:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
3 tbsp. minced red onion
3 tbsp. minced garlic
1/2 cup palm sugar
1/3 cup good quality fish sauce
1/2 cup concentrated tamarind juice
Cooking Instructions:
1. Heat the pan and add vegetable oil. When the pan is hot, add 3 tbsp. minced red onion and 3 tbsp. minced garlic. Fry until it turns gold. Gold pad Thai is good pad Thai. Be careful, it will be bitter if you put max heat and burn it.
2. Add palm sugar, fish sauce, concentrated tamarind juice. Boil until it gets thick.
3. Remove from the stove.
Next, we will cook the pad Thai noodles.
1. In a different pan, heat the pan and add vegetable oil. When the pan is hot, add red 1 tbsp. sliced onion and garlic. Fry until it has aromatic smell.
2. Add tofu, salted radish and dried shrimps.
3. Now, add noodle and water. Mix well then add vinegar.
4. Pour pad Thai sauce we prepare from before. Add as much as you like. Make sure you don’t add too much because the noodle will be too wet and overcook.
5. Then, make a quick stir. If you like bean sprouts and the genus Allium to be cooked, add it in this step.
6. Turn off the fire. Arrange the noodle on a plate. Put dried chili pepper, sugar, roasted peanut, fresh bean sprouts and the genus Allium on a side.
Oy!!!! I forgot to add shrimp!!
You can put them after any step above, because it was already cooked. I’ll put them like a pyramid on top of my Pad Thai. Another option for Pad Thai, make an omelet from duck’s eggs. Make it as thin and as big as possible. Put the noodle in the middle of the omelet. Fold four sides then put another plate on top. Turn it upside down. Decorate it with bean sprouts, the genus Allium or scallion, dried chili powder, sugar, peanut, and one piece of lemon.
We called this Pad Thai with omelet in Thai language, “Pad Thai Kai Ho”. Pad Thai is a classic Thai Food dish and one that we eat a lot - a couple times per month. Tourists, when they come to Thailand know “Pad Thai” from the Thai food restaurants in their home country. They always seem to know to order this dish!
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This PadThai page has been viewed over 28,000 times on this site! Recently we revised the page to fix the title and reformat the spaces. Look better? This is an amazing Thai food recipe that we must have a couple times per month. Right now as we speak Joy is making some Tom Kha Gai (Spicy and Sour Chicken Soup with mushrooms…) yum, one of my favorites. She just handed me a “Dragon fruit” one of my top 3 favorite Thai fruits! Thai food is the best! - Vern, Joy’s husband.