This is a Pad Thai recipe that truely stacks as much as incredible Thai restaurants yet is definitely possible for every home cook dinner with only a journey on your every day grocery store. With the slippery noodles, signature sweet-savoury flavour, sprinkle of peanuts and tang from lime, this is a Thai food preferred for right cause!

Pad Thai Recipe

Pad Thai is one of the international’s maximum cherished noodle dishes. together with Thai green Curry and red Curry, this is the dish via which every Thai restaurant is measured. In truth, i used to be searching for the “best” Thai eating place in my area simply final week and it introduced me plenty enjoyment that Pad Thai changed into the baseline of a favourable or unfavorable score for nearly each overview!

What is Pad Thai?

Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-bitter sauce scattered with beaten peanuts. It’s made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost continually has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, company tofu and a protein – the maximum popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp.

Authentic Pad Thai

Authentic Pad Thai on the streets of Thailand has a awesome fishy/prawny “funk” (which sounds thoroughly unappetising however is really absolutely addictive and the very essence of proper Thai street meals). If genuine is what you’re after, try this Prawn/Shrimp model I shared from Spice i’m Thai eating place.

On the opposite stop of the spectrum, a brief Google is all it takes to find a myriad of simple westernised versions which might be typically made with no longer plenty more than some thing bitter (vinegar, lime juice), soy sauce and sugar. those recipes will not taste like any Pad Thai you’ve had from a restaurant.

This recipe I’m sharing nowadays lies in the center between hardcore proper model (which even I locate borderline too fishy) and very simple westernised recipes that generally tend to lack the proper depth of flavour and are generally too sweet.

It without a doubt stacks up in your favorite Thai takeout – besides much less oily (restaurants tend to apply loads of oil) – but you may no longer want to seek within the dark corners of an Asian store to find the ingredients.

What is Pad Thai Sauce made of?

Pad Thai Sauce is made with fish sauce, oyster sauce, brown sugar and tamarind.

Tamarind is the ingredient this is the heart and soul of Pad Thai sauce, giving the sauce the bitter flavour that Pad Thai is known for. It’s an ingredient utilized in South East Asian cooking, like this Malaysian beef Rendang.

true Pad Thai is made with Tamarind pulp which comes in a block (size of a soap bar) that is then soaked in hot water, then pressed thru a sieve to make tamarind puree.

To make lifestyles easy, i take advantage of prepared made tamarind puree which is offered at supermarkets here in Australia. Or Asian stores, manifestly (and it’s less expensive).

Believe it or not, a great substitute is ketchup. With a few tweaks to the recipe, you can achieve a similar, extremely good outcome!

The Noodles

Pad Thai is made with flat dried rice noodles which can be found in everyday supermarkets.

I suggest Chang’s “Thai fashion” rice noodles instead of the actual Thai emblem rice noodles (Erawan Rice Sticks – red percent under) that are bought at supermarkets.

Chang’s are much less vulnerable to breaking and require simply 5 minutes of soaking in hot water.

The Erawan Rice Sticks are a long way greater vulnerable to breaking whilst stir frying.

Other Ingredients in Pad Thai

Here are greater ingredients which are very Pad Thai-centric: firm tofu and garlic chives.

You’ll find company tofu at the supermarket too – cross for the firmest plain tofu you could locate (read the label, provide the packet a squeeze to check). Don’t even consider attempting this with gentle tofu – it will just definitely disintegrate!

Garlic chives are the huge brother of everyday chives. They flavor like garlicky chives (I understand, you’re shocked right? 😂) and are shaped like blades of grass. those are also sold at supermarkets right here in Australia (with the alternative fresh herbs). Sub with more garlic and inexperienced onions if you could’t find them.

How to Make Pad Thai

Once you’ve gathered the ingredients, the making part is actually very straight forward!

As with all stir fries, make sure you have all the ingredients prepared and ready to toss into the wok or skillet because once you start cooking, things move fast!

I cannot believe how I’ve just written about Pad Thai without barely pausing for a breathe.

I’m going to stop here before I run out of space for the recipe. 

So – meet your new favourite Pad Thai recipe. The one you will make over and over again, any night of the week, just by popping into Woolies on the way home. WHOOOOT!!!!! – Nagi xx