As part of our Thai cooking class in Bangkok, we made my absolute favourite Thai dish… Pad Thai!
After you read this recipe, you will be eager to start cooking so you can enjoy a delicious meal… You can eat it at every meal, in fact, we had it for breakfast…
So, here is the recipe:
Ingredients:
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp garlic (minced)
- 5 medium sized peeled and deveined prawns
- 1/3 cup tofu-extra firm cut in 1 cm. strips
- 1/4 cup raw bean sprouts or cabbage
- 1/8 cup chive or green onion cut into 3 cm pieces
- 1 egg
- 100 g dried rice noodle (pre soak in warm water until soft then drain)
- 1 tbsp palm sugar or brown sugar
- 2 tsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp ground roasted peanut or cashew
- 1/2 tsp ground dried red chilli powder
- 1 tbsp tamarind paste or white vinegar
- 1 tbsp pickled white radish, finely chopped or pickled cabbage
Process
- In a wok, heat oil over low heat
2. Add garlic and fry
3. Add prawns, tofu, bean sprouts, chives and stir until prawns are cooked
4. Add the egg (but not the shell) and scramble
5. Add noodles, palm sugar, fish sauce, peanuts, chilli powder, tamarind paste and pickled white radish and continue frying
6. When noodles become soft, turn off the heat
7. Eat and enjoy with fresh vegetables and/or spices
As you can see, the process is nice and easy, and it is the preparation that takes the longest…. In fact, we learned that Thai people do not cook Pad Thai at home, they would rather go to a restaurant or a street cart and eat it there. In the end, we found that preparing it ourselves was worth all of our efforts! After you make and try this, I am sure it will also be your favourite Thai dish too!
Comments
8 responses to “My Favourite Thai Dish!”
Looks not too hard…and looks delicious! It is a good thing that you like to cook! Your parents are very lucky! When I get home to Canada, I will try this recipe as I also LOVE Pad Thai!
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It sure is easy to make and most importantly… Delicious!!! 🙂
Hi, Zoe and Mikhaila, this dish sounds absolutely delicious and also easy to make. Maybe you both can help me to prepare it, because I probably don’t know where to find the ingredients here in Courtice. Love the step by step instructions and photos. Lots of hugs from Oma
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I think you could probably find the right ingredients at a Thai store. Mikhaila and I would be happy to cook this delicious dish with you! 🙂
Okay, now we’re cooking! I love Pad Thai; especially with prawns. Only five!?! Have to have more! Love the way you organized your ingredients; just makes cooking easier. I try to do this prior to preparing a recipe, too. I am also glad you added substitutions because sometimes we may not be able to find some of the ingredients needed. When you get back, we will just have to compare our dishes. Bet it will be a Thai…HA! HA! Keep on cookin; good lookin!
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HA HA! I am also sure it will be a Thai! 🙂 I also love praawns and wouldn’t mind having more than five! 🙂
Hi Zoe,
Thanks for the recipe–I Pad Thai is great!!! I usually have it with chicken. It will be fun to try your recipe!!!! Your photos are great as well as the presentation of the food!! It is really lovely to see how happy all of you are. Your smiles are contagious! Love, Baba
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I don’t think I have ever tried pad Thai with chicken… Sounds good, I am willing to try it for sure! 🙂