Easiest Way to Make Award-winning Authentic Pad Thai

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, authentic pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Authentic Pad Thai is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Authentic Pad Thai is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have authentic pad thai using 22 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Authentic Pad Thai:

1. Make ready Sauce:
2. Make ready 6 Tbsp light brown sugar,
3. Get 6 Tbsp tamarind paste or rice vinegar,
4. Take 4 Tbsp fish sauce or Thai Taste - Vegan 'Fish' Sauce
5. Make ready 2 Tsp dark soy sauce
6. Make ready Pad Thai:
7. Make ready Instant rice noodles (Mama brand)
8. Take 400 g king prawns / sliced mushrooms,
9. Take 2 tsp Thai red chilli flakes or normal chilli flakes (use less for mild),
10. Take 2 spring onions roughly chopped,
11. Make ready 1 English shallot, sliced,
12. Prepare 2 eggs whisked (you can omit this to make it vegan),
13. Take 1 Tbsp oil (we recommend peanut oil),
14. Take Handful beansprouts,
15. Take 2-3 garlic cloves, crushed,
16. Get Tofu:
17. Prepare 4-6 tbsp crushed peanuts,
18. Make ready 1 block tofu drained, pressed and cut into 1 inch cubes,
19. Prepare 1 lime, juiced
20. Prepare Freshly cracked black pepper,
21. Make ready 1/3 cup cornflour
22. Make ready Garnish Examples: Handful of chopped coriander,1 spring onion chopped, lime wedges

Instructions to make Authentic Pad Thai:

1. Soak noodles in boiling water for 10 minutes until soft, drain the water.
2. Make pad thai sauce by placing ingredients in a small saucpan over a low/medium heat. Once the sauce thickens, add 1 tbsp of water, mix and set aside.
3. In a seperate bowl, add the cornflour and black pepper and mix, add the tofu until pieces are coated.
4. In a wok on a medium heat, add 1 Tbsp oil, garlic, chilli flakes and prawns (or mushrooms), spring onions, shallot and tofu. Cook for 4 minutes or until tofu is slightly browned on all sides. Set aside on a seperate plate.
5. Add 1 Tbsp oil in the wok, add whisked eggs and mix until cooked/resembles scrambled eggs (if you are vegan go to step 6)
6. Add drained noodles, beansprouts and sauce and toss until egg and sauce coats the noodles,
7. After 5 minutes add prawns/mushrooms/tofu mixture, 2-3 Tbsp of crushed peanuts and lime juice, toss for a final time
8. Serve immediately and garnish.

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