"What is Pad Thai? It’s a delicious Thai dish, prepared with roasted rice noodles, eggs, tofu, prawns or chicken and seasoned with sweet tamarind sauce, fish sauce, garlic, shallots, chilli, palm sugar and served with lime and peanuts. You can also add fresh sprouts, coriander, sour radish, green onions,…In this recipe I prepared Pad Thai a bit different, with egg noodles because they are my family’s favourite, instead of a tamarind sauce and palm sugar I used brown sugar and because I didn’t have any coriander in my spring garden, I used parsley. "
Ingredients:
300 g chicken breast
200 g egg noodles or rice noodles
3-5 eggs
1 shallot
2 garlic cloves
1 carrot
1 spoon brown sugar
1 bag Pod Thai Noodle spices
1 chilli
200 g mung bean sprouts
100 g unsalted roasted peanuts
3-5 spoons soy oil
oil/fat
green onions
coriander or parsley
salt and freshly ground pepper
300 g chicken breast
200 g egg noodles or rice noodles
3-5 eggs
1 shallot
2 garlic cloves
1 carrot
1 spoon brown sugar
1 bag Pod Thai Noodle spices
1 chilli
200 g mung bean sprouts
100 g unsalted roasted peanuts
3-5 spoons soy oil
oil/fat
green onions
coriander or parsley
salt and freshly ground pepper
Method:
- Immerse the noodles into a cold water.
- Slice the shallot thinly, chop the garlic cloves. Dice the chicken breasts. Cut the carrots with a potato peeler into noodle shapes or long thin strips (julienne cut).
- In oil sauté the shallot, add the chicken, season with salt and pepper, add sugar and cook until the chicken is golden. Meanwhile, also add the carrot.
- Add Pad Thai spices, chilli and stir. Now push everything aside leaving half of the pan clear for the noodles.
- Add the drained noodles and sauté them. If needed, add a few spoons of water.
- When the noodles soften, stir in the chicken with vegetables left on the side of the pan. Stir everything well together.
- In a cup beat the eggs and slowly add them between the chicken with noodles, constantly stirring all the ingredients.
- Increase the heat and fry everything for a few seconds so the eggs cook.
- Add the sprouts, stir gently and remove from the heat.
- To the finished dish, mix in crushed, unsalted roasted peanuts, chopped green onions and coriander or parsley.
Cooking Tipp:
- When preparing the delicious Pod Thai be careful to sauté the vegetables really quickly in a really hot pan, so the noodles don’t cook anymore and all ingredients retain as much nourishment as possible.
- For a good Pad Thai, you need a good quality, large pan or even better a wok pan, because all the ingredients must be cooked at high temperature in one pan in order for all the flavours to blend together during the cooking.
