Pad Thai is one of the most famouse dish of Thai Food. This is more like a one-dish menu. Most of Thai food we eat many dishes with rice. But for Pad Thai, it's the individual dish.
This recipe is very easy to cook. The major ingredient is Tamarind Sauce. In tropical countries, you can make this sauce by soaking tamarind in warm water, then squeeze and filter the sauce. In some places, you can find 'ready mixed' Pad Thai sauce, which can make our lives easier.
Ingredients:
2 tb.sp. vegetable oil
1 egg (preferably duck egg)
4 t.sp. fish sauce
2 red onions, sliced
8 shrimps (you can add more if you want)
4 tb.sp. ground peanut
3 tb.sp. Tamarind Sauce
1 pack for 1 serve rice noodles (dry noodles - soak in warm water for 5 mins, not too long!!)
1 1/2 cups bean sprouts
1/2 cups Tofu sliced
1/2 cups Chinese Chives, chopped into 1/8" dice
1 t.sp. dried chili powder (could be less if you're not the spicy person)
2 t.sp. sugar
2 onion trees, chopped 1"
Cooking:
1. Heat up the fry pan, put the oil into the pan until smoked
2. Put red onion, stir until light brown
3. Add Shrimp, tofu, Chinese Chives, stir until shrimp is cooked
4. Rest rice noodles and let water rinse, then put into the pan
5. Add Tamarind Sauce, fish sauce, sugar stir until well mixed
6. Add Ground Peanut and Chili powder
7. Make a hole in the middle of the pan, add a bit of oil, knock the egg in there, leave until bottom is hard
8. Stir everything in the pan, try to keep the egg flat
9. Add bean sprouts and onion trees
10. Serve on a dish with fresh bean sprout, lime, and banana flowers (optional), better eat while hot
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