How to Cook Delicious Homemade Pad Thai

Homemade Pad Thai. Buy books at Amazon.com and save. 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 came from your favorite Thai restaurant. This is a bare bones recipe for Pad Thai.

Create the perfect blend of Asian-inspired pure flavor with ginger and red pepper. Add crunchy peanut butter and toss with vegetables and noodles for a flavor-loaded dish that rivals Thai restaurant cuisine. This Pad Thai is packed with fresh ingredients and a simple homemade Pad Thai sauce you will love. You can have Homemade Pad Thai using 14 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Homemade Pad Thai

1. You need 2 tbsp of tamarind paste or tamarind juice.
2. You need 2 tbsp of fish sauce.
3. You need 2 1/2 tbsp of rice vinegar.
4. You need 1 1/2 tbsp of sugar.
5. It's 1/2 tsp of sambal (or paprika).
6. Prepare 2 tbsp of vegetable oil.
7. It's 2 of garlic cloves minced.
8. You need 1/2 lb of shrimp peeled.
9. Prepare 1 of egg lightly beaten.
10. It's 3/4 cup of bean sprouts.
11. Prepare 1/4 cup of unsalted peanuts roughly chopped.
12. It's 1/2 cup of green onion chopped.
13. You need 1 of lime wedges.
14. It's 1 of rice noodles.

Cook or soak the rice noodles, according to the instructions on your package, until they are tender. Make the Pad Thai sauce by combining the fish sauce, soy sauce, rice vinegar, brown sugar, sriracha and peanut butter. Pad thai is—hands down—one of the simplest copycat recipes you can make at home. It's the perfect quick-cooking meal for an easy weeknight dinner, and making it won't break the bank, either.

Homemade Pad Thai step by step

1. Bring pot to boil and cook rice noodles al dente...Also mix in a bowl tamarind, fish sauce,vinegar,sugar and sambal (or paprika) and set aside.
2. Heat a skillet or wok to medium high and stir fry garlic in the vegetable oil for 30 seconds, then add shrimp and cook until pink. Push the shrimp to one side of the wok and cook the beaten egg (scramble) then mix to incorporate..
3. Add the rice noodles and the sauce you made and stir fry together to incorporate. Add the bean sprouts in the last 1 min of cook time.
4. Garnish the dish with chopped green onions, peanuts and lime wedges (optional).

In a large pot of salted boiling water, cook noodles until al dente. In a small bowl, whisk together lime juice, brown sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce, and cayenne pepper. The BEST Pad Thai Recipe made with simple accessible ingredients that is fully customizable! Make this with your choice of chicken, shrimp or tofu! Simple, easy and fast with the BEST flavor!