How to Make Super Quick Homemade Easy, Accessible Pad Thai

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy, accessible pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Pad Thai is believed to have originated in Thailand during World War II. It was born out of a combination of a rice shortage and Thailand's prime minister wanting to create a national dish. It's a quick and easy alternative to takeout that any beginner cook can accomplish, but it's important to note that we skipped some traditional ingredients like dried shrimp, tamarind, pressed tofu, and bean sprouts. A recipe for easy homemade pad thai featuring a delicious homemade pad thai sauce.

Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Easy, Accessible Pad Thai is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have easy, accessible pad thai using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:

1. Get 8 oz pad thai noodles, (sometimes labeled as pho noodles, but get the wide ones - they're about 1/3" wide uncooked)
2. Make ready 2 eggs, whisked and lightly seasoned with salt
3. Make ready 2 cups mung bean sprouts
4. Take 1/2 lb. protein of choice (I prefer shrimp or chicken), cut in bite-sized pieces and lightly seasoned w/ salt & a pinch of sugar
5. Get oil for frying
6. Take 2 green onions, cut into 1.5"long segments
7. Prepare 4 lime wedges to serve on the side
8. Get cilantro, chopped, for garnish
9. Get For the sauce:
10. Get 3 Tablespoons ketchup
11. Make ready 2.5-3 Tablespoons fish sauce
12. Prepare 1 Tablespoon lime juice
13. Take 1 Tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
14. Take 1-2 Tablespoons brown sugar (or white sugar if you don't have brown)
15. Get 2 cloves garlic, minced
16. Take 1 Tablespoon crushed chili flakes, or to taste (I'd say this makes the dish about a 7 on the heat scale)

Create the perfect blend of Asian-inspired pure flavor with ginger and red pepper. My teenage son loves Pad Thai and this recipe is so easy and good. I add grilled chicken for that extra protein boost. Pad Thai Sauce is actually a very easy mix of fish sauce, vinegar, sugar and chili peppers.

Steps to make Easy, Accessible Pad Thai:

1. There are 2 options for prepping the noodles: 1) If you have time, soak the noodles in enough cold water to cover for 1 hour and then drain well. This results in a better texture. OR 2) Soak the noodles in enough hot water to cover for about 12 to 15 minutes or so, until all the noodles go completely limp when you pull them up by the handful out of the water, and drain well.
2. Mix all sauce ingredients in a bowl and stir thoroughly to incorporate all the seasonings evenly.
3. In a large wok or non-stick pan, bring a Tablespoon of oil up to medium high heat and saute/stir-fry your protein until cooked through. Set aside.
4. Scramble your eggs and set aside with the other protein.
5. Turn the heat to high, add 1 or 2 Tablespoons of oil to the pan, wait about 15 seconds to heat it up, and add in the noodles. Let the noodles sit for about 30 seconds so as not to disperse the heat then give a toss to redistribute them. Do this 3 or 4 times before adding in the rest of your ingredients. If your noodles start to stick together a little at this point, don't worry. When you add the liquid from the sauce, they'll separate again as you stir.
6. Add in the rest of your ingredients - meat, eggs, sprouts, green onions, and sauce - and toss thoroughly to season each noodle strand.
7. If you like some crispy/charred bits to your noodles, now is the time to add another Tablespoon of oil to the pan, and just let your noodles sit for a minute and a half to two minutes. This will crisp up some of the edges.
8. Garnish to taste with chopped cilantro and serve with lime wedges. The added fresh lime juice gives the dish extra zip.
9. Enjoy! :)

I add grilled chicken for that extra protein boost. Pad Thai Sauce is actually a very easy mix of fish sauce, vinegar, sugar and chili peppers. The sugar helps to temper the strong fish sauce flavor. It starts with fresh ingredients including rice noodles, chicken, shrimp, tofu, cilantro, bean sprouts, peanuts and scrambled eggs tossed in a delicious homemade pad thai sauce that is so good it tastes like it. Homemade Pad Thai sauce is fresher and healthier, therefore so much better than store-bought bottles, and it's easy enough to make with substitutes if you can't find all the ingredients.

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