Recipe: Delicious Pad Thai: Thai-style Stir fried Noodles

Pad Thai: Thai-style Stir fried Noodles. This scrumptious noodle recipe 'Pad Thai Gai' is the real deal - a version of famous Pad Thai (only easier!) direct from Thailand. It features stir-fried rice noodles with chicken in a tangy sauce along with toppings of chopped nuts and basil. The noodles are stir-fried until they have that famous Thai sticky/chewy taste.

It's an extremely famous street food in Thailand. It's one of Thailand's national dishes. History says that rice noodles were introduced in Thailand during WWII to reduce rice consumption due to rice shortage during the war. You can cook Pad Thai: Thai-style Stir fried Noodles using 20 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Pad Thai: Thai-style Stir fried Noodles

1. You need 150 grams of Sen lek (Thai rice noodles).
2. Prepare 1/2 tbsp of Dried shrimp.
3. It's 1 of tablespoon, chopped Garlic.
4. It's 4 of tablespoons, chopped Red onion.
5. It's 100 grams of Pork (belly etc.).
6. You need 6 of or 8 if they're small Shrimp.
7. You need 1/4 of sliced thinly and cut into bite sized pieces Atsuage.
8. It's 1 of to 2 Eggs.
9. Prepare of Flavoring ingredients:.
10. It's 2 tbsp of ★ Manao (lime) juice.
11. Prepare 1 tbsp of ★ Fish sauce.
12. It's 1/2 tsp of ★ Sugar (palm sugar).
13. You need 3 of shakes and 1 tablespoon respectively ★ Paprika powder and ketchup.
14. Prepare 1 tsp of ★ Oyster sauce.
15. Prepare 1/2 bag of Bean sprouts.
16. You need 1/3 bunch of Chinese chives.
17. You need 2 of to 3 Thin green onions.
18. You need of Accompaniments:.
19. Prepare 1 of ☆ Cilantro.
20. Prepare 1 of ☆ Peanuts (roasted and crushed).

A native Thai woman made this for a Thai cooking class. This is how she learned to make it from her mother. We tasted the dish and it was great. We did not have Pad Thai sauce with it but she said the store bought type was fine.

Pad Thai: Thai-style Stir fried Noodles step by step

1. Soak the sen lek noodles in water until soft for 2 to 3 hours. Rehydrate the dried shrimp in boiling water, and grind up or chop finely. Mix the ★ ingredients together..
2. Heat up a wok with oil, and stir fry the chopped garlic and onion until fragrant, taking care not to burn them..
3. Add the dried chopped or ground up shrimp and fresh shrimp and stir fry. Add the cut atsuage..
4. Add the beaten egg and sen lek, and mix in the ★ ingredients while stir frying. Add the bean sprouts, chives and green onion all at once and keep on stir frying..
5. Portion out and plate with the cilantro, chopped peanuts, lime and fish sauce..
6. To serve on the side: banana flower buds (sprinkled with lime to prevent discoloring), lotus (which tastes like seri or mitsuba), Chinese chives, bean sprouts, and manao (similar to lime)!!.
7. There are different varieties of chili powders available. The one in the glass jar has chili pepper, red onion and garlic in it..
8. Here are the rice noodles sold in Thailand..

Vegetables or tofu may be substituted for the chicken. She noted that overcooked noodles do not stir-fry well and do not look good. Pad See Ew - the popular Thai stir fried noodles straight from the streets of Thailand made at home! While Pad Thai is sweeter and nuttier, Pad See Ew is salty, balanced with a touch of sour and a wonderful chargrilled flavour which you can create at home!. Pad See Ew, which means "stir fried soy sauce noodles, is an extremely popular Thai street food meal and probably the most.