Pad Thai is a world-famous traditional Thai dish of fried rice noodles with aromatic sauce and vegetables. Now it is served everywhere, cooks add to the noodles not only fish and seafood, but also meat: pork and chicken. This article provides Thai noodle recipes with photos. Traditional recipes for Thai sauces are also provided.
Thai specialties
One of the main features of the cuisine in Thailand is its spiciness and spiciness, spices are added to all dishes and in large quantities. For the most saturated taste of food, peanuts, coconut milk, green pepper, hot sauces, sauces from a mixture of herbs, vinegar, curry based on coconut milk and other natural flavor enhancers are used in cooking.
Thai cuisine is dominated by side dishes of rice and noodles. Depending on the region in which the rice was grown, it is sticky or crumbly. The most expensive variety is jasmine rice. Noodles are mainly added to the first dishes, the second it is served in combination with vegetables, fish, meat, seafood.
An interesting feature of the kitchen is the use of dried insects: spiders, crickets and so on. In each region of the country, the cuisine is distinguished by the severity of dishes, a variety of desserts, signature recipes used by spices.
Seafood noodles
In order to cook Thai noodles with seafood according to this recipe, it will take no more than an hour. The dish is very simple, tasty and satisfying.
Essential products in two large portions:
- 100 grams of rice noodles;
- 100 grams of shrimp;
- 40 grams of squid and mussels;
- 40 grams of soybean sprouts;
- medium bunch of green onions;
- a tablespoon of olive oil;
- 2 eggs.
Thai Noodle Sauce Ingredients:
- 2 teaspoons of soy sauce;
- 3 tablespoons of tamarind sauce (pasta);
- a teaspoon of sugar.
Soak the noodles in cold water. In the meantime, peel the shrimp. Put them on a hot pan and fry on all sides. A sign of shrimp readiness is an appetizing pink color. Place the fried shrimp in a separate bowl. Break two eggs into the pan when the egg white has set, add the mussels, squid and previously cooked shrimp. In the process of frying (about two minutes), seafood must be constantly mixed. Drain the noodles and add it to the wok. Pour a dressing into the pan, consisting of soy sauce, sugar, pasta. After a minute, chopped onion and soybean sprouts are added. Cook the dish for another two minutes, stirring it constantly. Cooked noodles with seafood are spread on a serving plate , decorating it with greens.
Thai Chicken Noodle Recipe
Ingredients:
- 150 grams of chicken;
- 200 grams of noodles;
- two large cloves of garlic;
- medium onion sweet variety;
- 1/3 teaspoon of pepper;
- one egg;
- lime;
- a tablespoon of chopped peanuts;
- 40 grams of soybean sprouts;
- a large bunch of green onions;
- olive oil for frying.
Products for sauce:
- 5 teaspoons of oyster or fish sauce;
- 5 teaspoons of dry tamarind paste;
- 40 grams of cane brown sugar.
This Thai noodle recipe will take only an hour of your time. On a small fire, heat the sauce with pasta, stirring thoroughly. Then sugar is added to the mixture. The prepared sauce is poured into a container. Peanuts are slightly fried, without adding oil, transferred to a separate bowl. On medium heat with the addition of oil, finely chopped garlic and onions are fried until golden brown. Rice noodles are left in cool water for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, the chicken is fried in a wok until it is fully cooked. The meat should be finely chopped. Then the swollen noodles and previously prepared sauce are added to the wok. Cook on high heat. At the edge of the wok or in a separate pan, fry the egg, mixing it well. Egg, sprouts, finely chopped green onions are added to the noodles. Noodles should not be stiff, but only slightly fried, only in this case all the ingredients can be added. Stand for another 5 minutes - and the noodles are ready. Garnish a serving with lime and peanuts.
Vegetable Noodle Recipe
Those who don’t eat meat will benefit from the traditional Thai rice noodle recipe with vegetables.
You will need:
- 400 grams of noodles;
- 1 pc. pepper, onion and carrots;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 200 grams of mushrooms and pea pods;
- 1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar or rice;
- 2 tablespoons peanut butter;
- 1 tablespoon of sesame oil and soy sauce;
- a tablespoon of peanut butter;
- 1/3 cup chopped peanuts;
- soybean sprouts;
- 1 teaspoon of chili sauce;
- 3 teaspoons of honey.
Finely chop vegetables and mushrooms. Wash the young pea pods and let them dry a little. Combine chopped garlic cloves with peanuts. In a separate container, combine sauces, vinegar, oil. Add the paste to the same bowl. Cook the noodles over medium heat (no more than 8 minutes). Chopped vegetables are fried for 7 minutes in a small amount of oil. Garlic, sauce and noodles are added there, mixing everything thoroughly. Decorate the finished portion of noodles with peanuts.
Thai dressing sauce option
Thai cuisine is famous for a variety of all kinds of sauces, which are distinguished by their spiciness and spicy taste. Thai recipes for noodles are both savory and sweet sauces. Some of the recipes are listed below.
Required Products:
- 50 grams of chopped tamarind;
- 50 grams of ketchup;
- 17 grams of oyster sauce;
- 125 grams of palm sugar;
- 625 milliliters of drinking water.
The ingredients are combined in a container and thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous consistency. Cook the sauce on medium heat. After 35 minutes, the thickened sauce is removed from the heat. They are usually seasoned with rice and noodle dishes. The sauce is stored only in the refrigerator.
For sweet chili sauce you will need:
- 4 chili peppers;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 200 milliliters of water;
- 1/4 cup of wine from rice, sweet will do;
- 0.5 cups of sugar;
- 0.5 tablespoon of salt;
- 1 dessert spoon of corn starch.
Pepper and garlic need to be crushed to a homogeneous porridge-like paste. Next, add all the ingredients to the boiling water, except for starch, and cook for three minutes over low heat. Starch mixed with a little water and add to the sauce. Before use, it must be cooled. This sauce is well suited for a side dish of rice.
Tips
According to the recipes, Thai style noodles are cooked in small portions. If you use a large frying pan and many products, you can overexpose the dish, and then it will turn into a shapeless mass. If you replace rare ingredients inaccessible to you, then noodles will not lose their taste. Soybean sprouts can be replaced with cabbage, and rare sauces with ready-made mixes from the store.