Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, pad thai. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pad Thai is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Pad Thai is something which I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have pad thai using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Pad Thai:

1. Take Pad thai sauce
2. Prepare 9 tbsp packed palm sugar, roughly chopped
3. Get 9 tbsp water
4. Get 4 tbsp tamarind paste
5. Make ready 6 tbsp fish sauce
6. Take Pad thai
7. Prepare 2 tbsp dried shrimp
8. Prepare 115 g dried rice noodles, medium, soaked in room temp water for 1 hour then drain and cut into shorter pieces
9. Get 3 gloves garlic, minced
10. Get 1 onion, roughly chopped
11. Make ready 85 g firm tofu, cut into small bite-size pieces and pan-fried
12. Make ready Vegetable oil
13. Get Choice of shrimp or chicken breast for protein
14. Prepare Dried chili flakes
15. Prepare 2 cuts bean sprouts
16. Take 2 eggs, beaten
17. Prepare Spring onions, cut into 2-inch
18. Take 1/4 cut toasted peanuts, roughly chopped

Steps to make Pad Thai:

1. To prepare the sauce, caramelize the palm sugar on a sauce pan over low heat but make sure not to push it too dark. Then add the water to stop the caramelization. It will immediately harden the sugar syrup but will eventually dissolve once the its heated up again. Add the rest of the ingredients then continue simmer until the sugar has been dissolved again. Set aside.
2. Sear your choice of protein over medium heat. If you are using shrimp, take it out of the pan after searing so as not to over cook it.
3. Add a little more oil and toss in the garlic, onion, dried shrimps, tofu and chili flakes. Saute for a couple of minutes until fragrant.
4. Increase the heat and toss in noodles and sauce. Keep tossing until sauce has been absorbed. You may add a little water if the noodles is undercooked.
5. Once noodles are cooked, push everything at one side of the pan. Put a little oil on the empty space and cooked the egg. Break the yoke then once slight cooked, toss in the noodles until all is well combined.
6. Add the bean sprout, spring onion, half of the peanuts and the seared shrimps (if using). Toss well then turn off the heat.
7. Serve warm with additional sidings of peanuts, chili flakes, bean sprouts, lime wedges (and some sugar according to taste).

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