Saturday, December 26, 2009

my pad thai

Pad Thai is a dish of stir-fried rice noodles with eggs, fish sauce, tamarind juice, red chilli pepper, plus any combination of bean sprouts, shrimp, chicken, or tofu, garnished with crushed peanuts and coriander. It is normally served with a piece of lime, the juice of which can be added along with Thai condiments. In Thailand, it is also served with a piece of banana flower.

Pad Thais have been the best known or shall we say the trademark disk of Thailand. And it is widely appreciated and known all over the world, especially in America and Australlia.
Ingredients:
1 package rice noodles
vegetable oil
1 diced onion
1 minced garlic, 2 beaten eggs
1/2 cup unsalted and chooped dry-roasted peanuts
1/4 cup coarsely chopped cilantro
12 medium and peeled fresh shrimp
ketchup
fish sauce
white sugar
lemon juice
white wine vinegar

Procedure:
1.Treat your noodles first. Soak your noodles in cold water and drain it. Afterwhich, place the noodles in hot water and drain.

2. Prepare your skillet, heat the oil and saute onion and garlic. Try to caramelize the onion first before adding the shrimp. To know if you’re shrimp is already cooked, its color should be changed, specifically turning to pink or orange. Add your ketchup, fish sauce, sugar, lemon juice and vinegar.

3. Last phase is putting the beaten egg. Its best to let the egg cook without even stirring the dish so as to get the desired texture of the dish. Add now the drained rice noodles and the peanuts. Mix the whole dish until the noodles is tender.

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