How to make Pad Thai

Simple Steps to make Pad Thai

• The easiest way would be to buy the ready-made Pad Thai sauce in the grocery store
• The harder part is choosing which Pad Thai sauce to buy since there are so many to choose from because you don't know which one will taste good
• If you choose to make Pad Thai from scratch, a lot of ingredient in Pad Thai are optionals

Part 1:  Making the Sauce
Ingredients:

1. Dried Tamarin ( can used white Vinegar as a substitution)
2. Sugar
3. Fish Sauce
4. Ketchup (optional)

First you must soak the tamarin in water till it is soften.  If you choose to use white vinegar, you can skip this step.  After the tamarin is pre-soak in the water for about 10 minutes, you mix the tamarin and water together till you get a thick tamarin sauce out of it.  Throw away all the big chunk of the tamarin because you will only need to juice.

Second you put the tamarin juice or white vinegar into a pot (at low eat), add sugar and then fish sauce.  Stired it until it come to a boil.  Let it cool.  The sauce should taste sweet with a vinegary after taste and it shouldn't be too runny.  For color you may also add a little bit of ketchup to the sauce.

Part II:  Making the Pad Thai
*Serving 2-3 people*

Ingredients:

1. Pad Thai noodle (1/2 a package, about 200 gr)
2. Eggs (2)
3. Tofu (firm or extra firm-1/2 a package)
4. Meat ( could be chicken or prawns)
5. green onion (optional)
6. finely chopped garlic and red onion (shallot)
7. Cooking oil
8. Bean Sprout
9. Peanuts
10. Dried chilli (optional)

Let's get started:

Step 1:  soak the dried Pad Thai noodle in water until it semi soft (used luke warm water)

Step 2:  put the wok on the stove at high heat, add chopped garlic and red onion.  Stir well till it golden.

Step 3:  add tofu, you choice of meat and mixed it together until the meat is cooked. Add eggs and mix it together.

Step 4:  add the noodle, once the noodle is soften, add the Pad Thai sauce, mixed it really well.  When the noodle is cook add beansprout and green onion.  Stired and mixed all the ingredient together, if it's not salty or sweet enough, you can add more sugar or fish sauce.

Step 5:  Garnish with peanuts, chilli, beansprout and lime.

*note you may keep the left over sauce for later used*

To learn how to make other delicious Thai dishes please visit:
http://lila-thaicooking.blogspot.com/ for Pad-Thai and other noodles dishes
http://lila-thaitomyum.blogspot.com/ for Thai tom yum goong and other Thai soup
http://lila-padkrapow.blogspot.com/ for popular Thai stir-fried dishes
http://lilathaicurry.blogspot.com/ for easy recipe on how to make Thai curry
http://thaifriedrice.blogspot.com/ for delicious Thai fried rice