How to Make Chicken Pad Thai

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken pad thai. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Pad Thai - Isn't it about time we stopped relying on take out to get Pad Thai and making it at home instead? Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It's made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg.

Chicken Pad Thai is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Chicken Pad Thai is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Easiest Way to Prepare Chicken Pad Thai

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook chicken pad thai using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Pad Thai:

1. Make ready 8 ounces Pad Thai noodles
2. Get 4 1/2 tablespoons Asian fish sauce
3. Prepare 6 tablespoons light brown sugar
4. Make ready 1/4 teaspoon salt
5. Make ready 4 1/2 ounces cup fresh lime juice,
6. Take 1-2 Thai chili’-seeded stemmed and thinly sliced
7. Take (…Note you may want to mix up a little extra sauce…..:)
8. Take 3 ounces canola oil
9. Prepare 3 large shallots, thinly sliced (1 cup)
10. Prepare 3 large garlic cloves, minced
11. Make ready 1/4 cup cornstarch
12. Take 12 ounces Chicken breast cut into 1/4 inch strips- (dust with the ¼ cup of corn starch -shake off excess)
13. Prepare 3 ounces eggs, beaten
14. Make ready 2 scallions, thinly sliced
15. Get 2 ounces chopped roasted peanuts- chopped
16. Prepare 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
17. Make ready 1 cup bean sprouts

The key to perfect Pad Thai is in the cooking (or "not" cooking) of the noodles - learn how to get them chewy-perfect with this recipe. Prepare the noodles, cook the chicken, add veggie and sauce, cook scrambled eggs and stir in noodles. A classic authentic chicken pad Thai made simpler than most other recipes. Additional vegetables such as eggplant, squash, peppers, green beans, broccoli, snow peas, and mushrooms can be tossed.

Instructions

Instructions to make Chicken Pad Thai:

1. Cook the noodles for 6 minutes rinse with cold water and place in a bowl. (check the brand directions we cooked the minimum…some have you soak them and not cook)
2. In a small bowl, whisk the fish sauce, light brown sugar, salt, lime juice and chilies.
3. In an omelet pan add 2 tablespoons of oil, and add the eggs and cook, stirring occasionally, until nearly set, about 1 minute. Break up into small penny size pieces.
4. In a large skillet, heat 4 tablespoons of the oil until shimmering
5. Add the shallots and garlic and cook over high heat, stirring occasionally, until lightly browned, about 2 minutes then add the dusted with corn starch chicken cook, stirring occasionally for 2 minutes to brown. (Add more oil if need)
6. Add everything together stir-fry until the noodles are evenly coated, 2 to 3 minutes.(if you cook cook to long you lose flavor as the sauce cooks off. as noted above you can mix up extra sauce if desired)
7. Garnish with additional lime wedges, cilantro and chopped peanuts and bean sprouts

This restaurant-quality Pad Thai recipe is surprisingly easy to make at home and customize with whatever noodles, proteins, veggies, and spice level you prefer. (Chicken, steak, pork, shrimp. This Pad Thai recipe is hands-down one of the easiest, tastiest recipes on the blog. It's made with simple ingredients and can be made with chicken, shrimp or tofu! Americans in particular love pad Thai with chicken, so we set out to adapt our master recipe, which calls for shrimp, to make it with chicken instead. The same method applies for both versions of pad.

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