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Authentic Pad Thai

Name: Authentic Pad Thai
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 200 unit dried flat rice noodles soaked in cold water 30 min; 200 unit raw king prawns peeled; 3 tbsp tamarind paste; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 1 tbsp palm sugar; 3 unit eggs; 100 unit bean sprouts; 4 unit spring onions chopped; 50 unit roasted peanuts crushed

Street-food style pad thai — wok hei, chewy rice noodles, prawns, egg, tamarind and fish sauce.

by Cuisine Centrale

Prep20mCook15mTotal35m2servings

Ingredients

200 unit dried flat rice noodles — soaked in cold water 30 min
200 unit raw king prawns — peeled
3 tbsp tamarind paste
2 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp palm sugar
3 unit eggs
100 unit bean sprouts
4 unit spring onions — chopped
50 unit roasted peanuts — crushed

Servings

Instructions

1
Mix tamarind, fish sauce and palm sugar. Taste — it should be sour, salty and slightly sweet.
2
Heat wok until smoking. Add oil and prawns, stir-fry 2 minutes, push to side.
3
Add drained noodles and sauce. Toss well.
4
Push noodles to side, crack eggs into wok, scramble briefly then fold into noodles.
5
Add bean sprouts and spring onions, toss 30 seconds.
6
Serve with crushed peanuts, lime wedge and dried chilli on the side.