How To Make Super-Fly Pad Thai
Savory, tangy, and a hint of spicy flavors come together in a bowl of pad thai. It’s packed with tender noodles, eggs, and beansprouts for a loaded dinner!
Serves:
Ingredients
- 4ozwide rice noodles,sold with the Asian foods at the grocery store or at an Asian market
- hot water
- 1lime
- 2tbspfish sauce,sold with the Asian foods at the grocery store
- 1tspgarlic powder
- pinchred pepper flakes,optional
- 1½tspsoy sauce
- 2tbspsugar
- 1tbsppeanut oil
- ¼cupcilantro
- 1egg
- ¼cupunsalted peanuts*
- 1cupbean sprouts
Instructions
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Soak the noodles in hot water in the medium mixing bowl while making the sauce and scramble the egg.
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Squeeze the juice from the lime into a small mixing bowl. Dig out any seeds with fingers and discard the seeds.
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Add the fish sauce, garlic powder, red pepper flakes, soy sauce, sugar, and peanut oil to the lime juice. Beat with the fork to combine.
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Scramble the egg in the skillet over medium heat. Just crack the egg into the heated nonstick skillet and stir with a heatproof rubber spatula to break up the chunks while it cooks
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When the eggs are solid, drain the water off of the noodles and add them to the skillet.
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Add the sauce, the peanuts, and the bean sprouts to the skillet.
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Stir everything together with the tongs, and cook until it’s all warm.
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Turn off the stove, take the skillet off the burner, and transfer the pad thai to serving plates with tongs
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Sprinkle cilantro on top of each serving and try eating with chopsticks.
Recipe Notes
Peanuts: If using salted peanuts, reduce the soy sauce to 1 teaspoon.
Nutrition
- Calories: 488.30kcal
- Fat: 18.31g
- Saturated Fat: 3.08g
- Trans Fat: 0.01g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 8.49g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 5.56g
- Carbohydrates: 69.73g
- Fiber: 4.56g
- Sugar: 16.92g
- Protein: 14.13g
- Cholesterol: 79.98mg
- Sodium: 1774.30mg
- Calcium: 68.59mg
- Potassium: 385.28mg
- Iron: 2.61mg
- Vitamin A: 43.05µg
- Vitamin C: 17.26mg
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