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Pad Thai

May 8, 2016 by Albion

I had never had Thai food before Scott and I started dating. It is now solidly up there with my favorite cuisines. It is actually pretty easy to find good Thai food in New Zealand, and we ate it regularly when we lived there. Still, nothing compares to actually getting to eat Thai food *in* Thailand, and in our pre-kid years, we were able to do just that. I have such a love for Pad Thai and it’s a dish that I can honestly say we’ve eaten all over the world. When we moved to the States and Thai restaurants were harder to come by (at least in the places we’ve been), we decided that we needed to make our own Pad Thai. Scott was able to “Americanize” it so that we could use easier to find ingredients than truly authentic Pad Thai, but it is comfort food, just the same.

Pad Thai

Ingredients:
8 oz flat rice noodles
8 oz chicken breast, sliced thinly
2 eggs
3-4 spring onions
1-2 cups fresh bean sprouts
handful of peanuts, crushed
small bunch of cilantro, coarsely chopped
 
(sauce)
2 tbsp brown sugar
2 tbsp vinegar (white or apple cider)
2 tbsp worcestershire sauce
1 tbsp fish sauce or soy sauce
1 tbsp ketchup
1-2 tsp crushed ginger and garlic each
sriracha to taste

ingredients

Soak the noodles in cold water for 2-3 hours. In a pinch, you can do it in hot water for 30-45 minutes. If you do go the hot water route, check your noodles every few minutes and switch the water to cold when they get to be opaque and tender enough to bite through easily.

rice noodles

soak the rice noodles

While the noodles are soaking and you’re getting ready to cook, do your mise en place (that’s Food Network speak for do your prepwork 😉 ). This includes slicing the spring onions thinly, cracking the eggs, crush or coarsely chop the peanuts, thinly slice the chicken, and cut the lime into eights. Roughly chop the cilantro and rinse the bean sprouts. Finally, when you’re ready to go, drain the noodles.

ingredients

Mix your sauce ingredients together. The sour comes from the vinegar, the sweet from the sugar, and the salty from the soy. It should be as sweet as it is sour as it is salty, so if it isn’t, add a little bit more of the missing ingredient. We make this for the family and the girls don’t eat much spice yet, so we just use a teaspoon of sriracha. Anyone who likes it spicier (Scott!), can add it to their own bowl. All told, you should end up with 2/3 cup of sauce.

mix the sauce

Scramble the eggs over medium heat with a little oil in a nonstick skillet or wok.

oil

scrambled eggs

Remove the eggs and wipe out the skillet. Add a bit more oil and stir fry the chicken over medium high heat until it’s cooked through (about three minutes).

chicken

chicken

eggs and chicken

Remove the chicken and add more oil. This time you want enough oil to coat the bottom of the pan. We used 4 tablespoons of oil. It will seem like a lot, but the noodles need to be coated or they will stick.

noodles

Stir fry the noodles for about a minute and then add the sauce and about half the bean sprouts. Stir fry for about two minutes until the noodles are al dente and slightly chewy.

add the sauce

Throw in the eggs and chicken. Toss them around for about half a minute to warm them back up.

add egg and chicken

Add the cilantro and spring onions. Mix them in and cook for about thirty seconds.

add spring onions and cilantro

We like to serve Pad Thai with extra bean sprouts, crushed peanuts, and a lime wedge that should be squeezed on top before eating.

Pad Thai

Pad Thai

We eat Pad Thai regularly, just as we always have. The only difference is that these days, we mostly make it ourselves. It does get us dreaming about going back to Thailand, though! It was definitely a favorite adventure.

Thailand

Our porch isn’t quite the same as Thailand, but with a bit of color and a nice breeze, we can daydream!

Pad Thai

Pad Thai

 

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I’ve wanted to be an archaeologist, in theatre, a judge and to run a museum. I’m now in my mid-30s and have no idea what I want to be when I grow up.

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