Easy, Accessible Pad Thai
Easy, Accessible Pad Thai

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy, accessible pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

This Pad Thai recipe is hands-down one of the easiest, tastiest recipes on the blog. Pad Thai is believed to have originated in Thailand during World War II. It was born out of a combination of a rice shortage and Thailand's prime minister wanting to create a national dish.

Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy, accessible pad thai using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
  1. Make ready 8 oz pad thai noodles, (sometimes labeled as pho noodles, but get the wide ones - they're about 1/3" wide uncooked)
  2. Make ready 2 eggs, whisked and lightly seasoned with salt
  3. Take 2 cups mung bean sprouts
  4. Make ready 1/2 lb. protein of choice (I prefer shrimp or chicken), cut in bite-sized pieces and lightly seasoned w/ salt & a pinch of sugar
  5. Get oil for frying
  6. Get 2 green onions, cut into 1.5"long segments
  7. Get 4 lime wedges to serve on the side
  8. Prepare cilantro, chopped, for garnish
  9. Get For the sauce:
  10. Make ready 3 Tablespoons ketchup
  11. Prepare 2.5-3 Tablespoons fish sauce
  12. Make ready 1 Tablespoon lime juice
  13. Get 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
  14. Prepare 1-2 Tablespoons brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown)
  15. Take 2 cloves garlic, minced
  16. Get 1 Tablespoon crushed chili flakes, or to taste (I'd say this makes the dish about a 7 on the heat scale)

Homemade Pad Thai sauce is fresher and healthier, therefore so much better than store-bought bottles, and it's easy enough to make with substitutes if you can't find all the ingredients. Authentic Pad Thai has tamarind paste in it. As it's not widely available, I substituted rice vinegar instead. As pad thai is one of the most popular street foods in Thailand, she encouraged us to approach it at home the way the street vendors do: the prep is already done, so you can finish it in a flash.

Steps to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:
  1. There are 2 options for prepping the noodles: 1) If you have time, soak the noodles in enough cold water to cover for 1 hour and then drain well. This results in a better texture. OR 2) Soak the noodles in enough hot water to cover for about 12 to 15 minutes or so, until all the noodles go completely limp when you pull them up by the handful out of the water, and drain well.
  2. Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly to incorporate all the seasonings evenly.
  3. In a large wok or non-stick pan, bring a Tablespoon of oil up to medium high heat and saute/stir-fry your protein until cooked through. Set aside.
  4. Scramble your eggs and set aside with the other protein.
  5. Turn the heat to high, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons of oil to the pan, wait about 15 seconds to heat it up, and add in the noodles. Let the noodles sit for about 30 seconds so as not to disperse the heat then give a toss to redistribute them. Do this 3 or 4 times before adding in the rest of your ingredients. If your noodles start to stick together a little at this point, don't worry. When you add the liquid from the sauce, they'll separate again as you stir.
  6. Add in the rest of your ingredients - meat, eggs, sprouts, green onions, and sauce - and toss thoroughly to season each noodle strand.
  7. If you like some crispy/charred bits to your noodles, now is the time to add another Tablespoon of oil to the pan, and just let your noodles sit for a minute and a half to two minutes. This will crisp up some of the edges.
  8. Garnish to taste with chopped cilantro and serve with lime wedges. The added fresh lime juice gives the dish extra zip.
  9. Enjoy! :)

First, she wants you to make the sauce in advance because the ingredients are not standardized. Pad thai is one of the best takeout dishes ever. Use these easy hacks to make it at home instead. Pad Thai is one of the best takeout dishes ever. But what about when you want to make it at home?

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