DISH RESEARCH · Noodle dish
Pad Thai
Also known as: Pad Thai with chicken, Pad Thai with meat, Pad Thai, meatless, Pad Thai, NFS, ผัดไทย
Thai rice noodles tossed with a sweet, salty and sour sauce; this authored recipe version uses shrimp, tofu, egg, sprouts and peanuts.
About Pad Thai
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Pad Thai is a Thai rice-noodle dish. Pailin Chongchitnant’s shrimp version aims for a balance of sweetness, saltiness and sourness, with the sauce absorbed into the noodles.
Palm sugar, fish sauce and cooking tamarind make its sauce. Fresh shrimp, dried shrimp, pressed tofu, egg, shallot, garlic and sweet preserved radish supply the other main components.
Mung bean sprouts lighten the noodles; garlic chives and chopped roasted peanuts add flavour and texture. The recipe uses medium rice noodles, soaked and drained before cooking.
The shrimp are seared and set aside. Aromatics and tofu cook next, followed by noodles and sauce; egg is cooked in space cleared in the pan and mixed through before shrimp and vegetables return.
Lime wedges and extra peanuts finish the plate, with more sprouts and chives alongside. Pailin recommends immediate service and small cooking batches; her other protein substitutions are separate versions.
Ingredients in Pad Thai
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- Tamarind pastesauce
- Eggprotein
- Tofuprotein
- Shrimpprotein
- Garlic chivesseasoning
- Peanutother
- Vegetable Oilother
- Soy Saucesauce
- Rice noodlesother
- Bean Sproutsother
- Fish sauceother
- Limeother
- Sugarsweetener
Ingredient connections awaiting review. Versions and preparation vary.
Origins & food traditions
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- Countries & places
- Thailand
- Cooking traditions
- Thai cuisine
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