Pad Thai

Summary

Yield
servings
SourceThomsonj
Prep time
30 minutes
Cooking time
30 minutes
Total time
1 hour

Ingredients

1 package
rice noodles (12 oz)
1 pound
chicken breast (1/2" cubes)
3 clove
of garlic (minced/pressed)
1⁄4 cup
extra light olive oil (+ 2 Tbsp)
4  
eggs
2 tablespoon
white wine vinegar
6 tablespoon
white sugar
2 tablespoon
fish sauce
3 teaspoon
peanut butter
1⁄8 tablespoon
crushed red pepper
3 cup
fresh bean sprouts
1⁄3 cup
crushed peanuts
3  
green onions (chopped )
1  
lime
  dash
fresh cilantro

Instructions

Place noodles in a large bowl and cover with boiling water. Let sit for 5 minutes, then rinse in cold water and drain.
In a large pan (preferable a wok), heat the 2 tablespoons of oil..get it hot. Add the garlic and chicken, sautee till browned and remove from pan.
In a small bowl, mix the vinegar, sugar, red pepper flakes and fish sauce.
Heat the 1/2 cup of oil (same thing: Get this really hot too) and add the eggs. Cook till firm, add the chicken and cook for a few minutes.
Add the sauce, peanut butter and noodles, heat it all up. Stir in the bean sprouts, add the green onions and you're done!

Serve with crushed peanuts and cilanro as garnishes with a little slice of lime on the side.

Notes

Adding the eggs to that much oil sounds and looks weird at first, but trust the recipe and just go with it.
This is a kid-friendly version, others may want to add more pepper, or other sources of heat...maybe some green or red chilis?
Adding shrimp is a good idea, too....hmm...I wonder if I have all this in cupboards now? OK, I am making this soon, and posting pics.
I add the peanut butter to the sauce, and whisk it up...it doesn't mix up nice, it looks hideous and smells bad...but ithe PB will melt when it hit the noodles and chicken, and OMG this is good.
Made this very recently, and halved the fish sauce and doubled the PB. Was *much* better, IMO, and I have changed the recipe to reflect this.

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