Like most people, I love pad thai. Thus I have sought a means of
making it at home that is quick and easy. This
recipe is the simplest homemade pad thai you'll find and chances are
you'll be able to make it without buying a bunch of exotic ingredients that you
can't use for anything else (which I've found is a downside to cooking many Asian dishes- I
mean how many uses do you have for fish sauce?).
Poor Man's Pad Thai
Ingredients:
one package rice noodles (can substitute other kinds of noodles like fettuccine pasta)
3 eggs
*Optional Enhancers: carrots, onions, broccoli, purple/red cabbage, shrimp, chicken etc.
sauce:
2 Tbs soy sauce (or fish sauce if you have it)
2 Tbs ketchup
1/2 cup sugar
1 Tbs minced garlic
1/2 cup oil (peanut or vegetable are good)
*Optional for spice: 1 tsp saracha (rooster sauce) or other spicy sauce or red pepper flakes
garnish:
peanuts
mung bean sprouts
cilantro
sliced lime
Cook rice noodles in boiling water, drain, mix with a little oil (so they don't stick) and set aside. Scramble and fry eggs, chop into little pieces and set aside. Mix the "sauce" ingredients in a mixing bowl and set aside. In
a large pan (or wok), with some oil and garlic, saute whatever else you want in
your pad thai. I like my pad thai with some broccoli, cabbage, onions
and carrot and sometimes chicken or shrimp. Once these ingredients
are well cooked add half of the rice noodles, all the egg and sauce to
the pan. Mix well on medium low heat and add more rice noodles as you
deem necessary (more noodles= drier pad thai. I
like mine a little "saucier") Enjoy!
