Pad Thai

This Pad Thai recipe offers a delicious mix of tangy, savory, and slightly sweet flavors. With stir-fried rice noodles, fresh beansprouts, and crunchy peanuts, it's a satisfying meal full of texture. The fragrant kaffir lime leaves and zesty sauce bring out bold, authentic Thai flavors, making this dish irresistible for any noodle lover.

  • Preparation Time: 15 minutes
  • Cooking Time: 10 minutes
  • Total Time: 25 minutes

Ingredients

Servings: 4

Pad Thai

  • 200 g
    flat rice noodles
  • 1 cup
    beansprouts
  • 1 cup
    chives chopped
  • 1 cup
    firm tofu diced
  • ¾ cup
    ground peanuts
  • cups
    oyster mushrooms shredded
  • 1 pc
    tomato diced
  • 5 cloves
    garlic chopped finely
  • 7 pcs
    kaffir lime leaves
  • 4 tbsp
    cooking oil
  • 1 tsp
    pink salt

Sauce

  • 3 tbsp
    soy sauce
  • ¼ cup
    Thai sweet chili sauce
  • ½ pc
    key lime
  • ½ tbsp
    brown sugar

Instructions

  1. Cook rice noodles in a pot of boiling water for 4 minutes or according to instructions on the packet. Remove from pot and drain water from noodles. Leave aside.
  2. Stir sauce ingredients together in a separate bowl.
  3. Heat up wok on medium to high heat with cooking oil.
  4. Fry garlic for l minute until it starts to brown.
  5. Add peanuts, tomato, lime leaves and salt and fry for 1-2 minutes.
  6. Add mushrooms and tofu, and fry for 1-2 minutes or until mushrooms just start to wilt.
  7. Add beansprouts and chives, bring down the heat a little, and proceed to stir ingredients together briskly.
  8. Add rice noodles and sauce, and stir everything up until the noodles and sauce are evenly distributed amongst the other ingredients.
  9. Serve immediately.

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Tags

Courses: Main Course
Type of dish: Noodle
Cooking time: 15-30 minutes
Special diets: Gluten-free
Cuisines: Thai
Difficulty: Level 1 (easy)
Preparation method: Frying
Taste: Spicy
Number ingredients: 10-15 ingredients