Pad Thai is a delicious rice noodle dish you can make at home is about 30 minutes. It's made with chicken, rice noodles, vegetables, eggs, peanut, cilantro, and irresistible Pad Thai sauce.
Cook rice noodles according to the package instruction but under-cook them slightly. Drain off water and set aside. (While pasta is cooking prepare other ingredients.)
Before Cookies:
Prepare all ingredients before starting to cook:Place bean sprouts in a bowl of cold water to soak. (Take bean sprout of the water and shake off excess water before adding it to the pan.) Slice bell pepper, smash and mince garlic, and dice green onions. Dice chicken and set aside. Whisk eggs in a bowl and set aside. Combine all ingredients for the sauce, whisk, and set aside.
Cooking Pad Thai:
Preheat a large pan over medium-high heat. Add 2 tbsp. of peanut oil and saute diced chicken thigh meat in the pan until just done. Take the chicken out of the pan and set aside.
Add a little more oil to the pan and saute bell peppers until they start to soften. Add garlic, red pepper flakes, and bean sprouts. Stir and saute for just a couple of minutes and move veggies to the sides of the pan.
Pour whisked eggs into the center of the pan. Let them cook a little and then scramble and mix with vegetables.
Add chicken back in and add cooked rice noodles to the pan.
Pour in the sauce mixture and toss everything together to combine. Stir in green onions and cook for a couple more minutes.
Sprinkle crushes peanuts, cilantro, and squeeze a couple of lime wedges over the noodles. Mix and serve!
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Notes
Gluten Free Notes: As it comes, this dish not gluten-free because of the soy sauce. However, you can easily substitute the soy sauce for gluten-free soy sauce, tamari, or coconut aminos.
Tamarind paste: It’s a pulp of the tamarind fruit that is often used in Indian and Asian cuisines. It tastes sour, tangy, and a little sweet. Tamarind is not salty. I don’t recommend substituting it for more soy sauce because it is a different flavor and again, it is not salty but soy sauce is. Check you local grocery stores and Asian stores for this ingredient. It keeps very well closed in the refrigerator.
Reheating Notes: I found that the best way to reheat pad Thai is actually in a pan with a little chicken broth to reinvigorate the noodles. Add a little oil to the pan first, before adding cold noodles. Drizzle a couple of tablespoons of chicken broth (more if reheating a large amount), toss, and let it heat through over medium heat.