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Description
A family recipe for Thailand's best-known noodle dish: rice noodles tossed in a sweet, sour and salty tamarind sauce with egg, bean sprouts and peanuts. Adapted from “Pad Thai” in the Wikibooks Cookbook (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chili flakes cut from 2 tbsp to 1–2 tsp, fewer bean sprouts, the "assorted vegetables" made specific. Photo: Tuxta, CC BY-SA 3.0Index Librorum Permissorum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (“Pad Thai 2018-12-26 (1)”).
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Ingredients

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  • Unchanged: 225 g flat rice noodles
  • Sauce
    Unchanged: 60 ml fish sauce
  • Unchanged: 3 tbsp white or rice vinegar
  • Unchanged: 75 ml tamarind juice
  • Unchanged: 5 tbsp palm sugar or granulated sugar
  • Stir-fry
    Unchanged: 4 tbsp vegetable oil
  • Unchanged: 2 cloves garlic, chopped
  • Unchanged: 1 tsp dried red chili flakes
  • Unchanged: 225 g shrimp or chicken (or firm tofu), in bite-sized pieces
  • Unchanged: 1 carrot, shredded
  • Unchanged: ½ onion, thinly sliced
  • Unchanged: 2 eggs
  • Unchanged: 4 green onions, chopped
  • Unchanged: 200 g bean sprouts
  • Unchanged: 100 g unroasted peanuts, chopped
  • Unchanged: Lime wedges, to serve(optional)
  • Unchanged: Cilantro leaves, to serve(optional)

Method

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    Soak the noodles in warm water for about 20 minutes, then drain. (Or pour boiling water over them and leave for 7 minutes.)

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    Mix the fish sauce, vinegar, tamarind juice and sugar in a small bowl.

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    Heat the oil in a wok over high heat and fry the garlic and chili flakes for a minute until the garlic starts to colour.

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    Add the shrimp, tofu or chicken and cook until browned and cooked through.

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    Add the carrot and onion and stir-fry until tender.

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    Add the drained noodles. Crack the eggs over them, let them set for a moment, then mix everything together.

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    Pour in the sauce, mix well and turn the heat down to medium.

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    Add the green onions and bean sprouts and stir-fry for 2 more minutes.

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    Pile onto plates and scatter over the peanuts. Add cilantro and a lime wedge if you like.