Pad Thai
If you're looking for a great dish to make at home, try Pad Thai with shrimp and chicken. This spicy dish is made with rice noodles, which are typically a quarter-inch-wide. While this may seem like a complex recipe, it's not difficult to make and is sure to be a hit with your guests. It also tastes great and is one of the easiest recipes to make. You can also use fish sauce and brown sugar instead of tamarind paste.
Ingredients
Pad Thai Sauce
- 5 tbsp Palm sugar grated (around 40 grams)
- Alternative to palm sugar is 2.5 tbsp of raw sugar
- 1/3 cup Tamarind paste/concentrate
- Make sure to taste your tamarind paste first. Some are a bit too sour/acidic. We are using the Maesri brand.
- 3 tbsp Fish sauce
- 4 tbsp Water 4 .
Pad thai
- 1 pack Pad thai noodles
- 8 pcs Shrimps whole
- 200 grams Chicken breast cut thinly
- 1 medium size Onions thinly sliced
- 6 cloves Garlic chopped
- 1 tbsp Dried shrimp chopped
- 50 grams Hard tofu cut into small pieces
- 1 tsp Chili flakes
- 2 whole Eggs beaten, seasoned with salt
- 3 cups Bean sprouts
- Fresh coriander chopped
- 1 cup Garlic chives cut into 1” pieces
- 2 tbsp Crushed peanuts
- 1 whole Lime
- Cooking oil
Instructions
- Soak the Pad Thai noodles in tepid water for 2 hours or until they turn translucent to white. The goal is to get them soft and a bit elastic. Drain.
- Mix all the sauce ingredients in a bowl. Set aside.
- Put oil in a heated wok.
- Cook the chicken until brown. Set aside.
- In the same wok, cook the shrimp until it turns vibrant orange. Set aside.
- Cook the beaten eggs in the same wok. Set aside.
- Still using the same wok, saute onions, garlic, tofu and chili flakes. Add more oil when necessary.
- Cook until the garlic turns golden brown.
- Add in the noodles.
- Add in the sauce.
- Stir the dish. Make sure the noodles are completely covered with the sauce. Add ¼ cup of water if the noodles are a bit dry.
- Add in the scrambled eggs cooked in Step 6. Mix well.
- Add the bean sprout, garlic chives, coriander and half of the peanuts into the pan.
- Turn off heat.
- When plating, put the noodles first. Top with the chicken, then the shrimps. Add additional bean sprouts, chives, chili and peanuts, if desired. Sprinkle lime zest. (Just like how they serve it in restaurants.)
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Notes
If you don't have time to make it from scratch, you can buy precooked chicken. This will save you the time and effort of frying the chicken. To save even more money, you can also freeze the prepared chicken and shrimp in an airtight container. Then, just mix them up and serve. Then, enjoy your new favorite dish. You can also enjoy it with a bowl of cold rice noodles.