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Homemade Pad Thai

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Home Base Pad Thai – A great starter recipe just begging for variations–chicken, shrimp… make it your own!

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I call this home base pad thai because it’s the safe house. The starting place. The jumping point for all other fun variations. Toss in some shrimp for shrimp pad thai. Add some bean sprouts for veggie pad thai. See? Home base.


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If, like, me you’ve been scared of fish sauce, don’t be! I was really–REALLY–nervous. I had a bad experience with oyster sauce once, and I’ve been nervous about fish sauce. There are so many recipes I’ve skipped over for fear of the dang fish sauce! All these years, wasted! It was no big deal! It added a saltiness and a really nice little something to the dish. I plan on trying many of the recipes I’ve passed over, since I enjoyed it so much.

As for ingredients, there’s nothing particularly fancy-pants in this recipe, which is another reason it makes a good starting point for variations, but here are a few tips for ingredients…I bought Thai Kitchen brand fish sauce (available in MANY markets and even my Wal-Mart and Target). Also, wide rice noodles can be sort of tricky to find (my grocery stores just started carrying them), but I’ve actually had my best success finding them at Target. A Taste of Thai or Thai Kitchen brand both work nicely. If you’re gluten-free, I’ve had good luck with San-J brand gluten-free tamari (which I’m seeing everywhere these days). None of these brands know or care who I am, I just wanted to pass along what I’ve had success with.

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Home Base Pad Thai


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  • Author: One Lovely Life
  • Yield: 4 1x

Description

This is a great starter recipe that provides a good base for variations. Feel free to add in a bit of shrimp or some bean sprouts to make it your own.


Ingredients

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  • 8oz wide rice noodles
  • 1/3c fresh lime juice
  • 1/3c water
  • 2 Tbsp soy sauce (or gluten-free tamari)
  • 2 Tbsp fish sauce
  • 1 Tbsp brown sugar
  • 1 Tbsp Asian sweet chili sauce, or a dash of Sriracha
  • olive oil
  • 2 eggs, beaten
  • 1/4c cilantro, minced
  • 3 green onions, sliced
  • 34 Tbsp cashews, roughly chopped

For variations:

  • 1/2lb shrimp, peeled and deveined or 1 heaping cup bean sprouts

Instructions

  1. Place rice noodles in a large bowl and cover with the hottest tap water you can get. Allow noodles to soak in water for 25-30 minutes, or until tender (but not mushy). Drain.
  2. While the noodles are soaking, prepare the sauce by whisking lime juice, water, soy sauce or tamari, fish sauce, brown sugar, and sweet chili sauce or Sriracha. Set aside while you cook the eggs.
  3. Heat a small drizzle of olive oil in a large saute pan over medium heat. Pour in eggs and cook, without scrambling, in a large egg pancake/open omelet shape. (The egg layer will be thin) As soon as it looks cooked through, remove egg pancake from the pan and place on a cutting board. Chop into strips or cubes.
  4. (Note: if adding shrimp or sprouts, heat another drizzle of olive oil in the same pan used to cook the eggs, and add them here. Cook over medium heat until shrimp are opaque or sprouts are heated through. Remove from pan and set aside with eggs.)
  5. In the same pan used to cook the eggs, add prepared noodles, egg, and sauce. (If using shrimp or sprouts, add the cooked shrimp or sprouts here as well.) Toss to coat everything well. Top with cilantro, green onion, and cashews.

Notes

For a gluten-free version, I use San-J Gluten Free Tamari sauce. Also, double check that your sweet chile sauce is gluten and dairy free. Thai Kitchen brand is a good choice.

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4 Comments

  1. This looks so good! I agree, the fish sauce is so much less scary than it sounds. I’ve had a hard time finding the noodles, too. Trader Joe’s has them for those people lucky enough to live near one. I’ll have to check Target. Usually when I actually find some, I buy a bunch and make so much pad thai that I get sick of it for a year. Then I start to crave it and go crazy trying to remember where I bought the noodles the last time. 🙂

  2. Emily, yum! We love pad thai but haven’t had success making it at home, so I think I might need to give it another go with this recipe!

  3. This sounds so delicious! This says ‘comfort food’ to me. 🙂 Can’t wait to try it!

  4. Yum!!!! Jude loves pad thai, and Asian noodles are a staple at our house being gluten free -I’m excited to try another rendition. I’m amazed, SERIOUSLY amazed that you’re still able to stay excited about food with everything you have going on. That’s one of the biggest thing I miss, I just don’t have the same energy about what I’m cooking my family when all I can think about is what I can feed Jude! I especially miss being able to make a fun breakfast, or dessert – it’s just not worth the fight having it around for Jude to see. Some day!! Love all the posts, hooray for so much progress so fast! You were able to start therapy fast, I’m amazed! It felt like it took me two months to get going. Amazing girlie!

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