it didn't come out all that great. first of all i shouldn't have used smoked salmon and the sauce i used was so greasy.

anyone have a good recipe for Pad Thai?

Smoked Salmon...in Pad Thai? I would have done something easier...like chicken. At least then you are not having competing tastes in it.

I have never made it though. Just looked it up...it looks a bit daunting for my cooking endeavors..though it looks sorta simple...I don't stir fry (never got it down right)




This recipe requires 1 cup of dry roasted, unsalted peanuts. For best preparation, coarsely break them up in a stone mortar and pestle.

Ingredients

8 ounces Chantaboon rice noodles. These should be soaked at room temperature for an hour or more depending on how soft you prefer the noodles. It may take some experimentation to determine your preference, start with warm water.
5-6 cloves garlic, finely chopped.
2 tablespoons chopped shallots (or small red or purple onions)
1/4 cup dried or 1/2 fresh cooked shrimp
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup regular sugar (or crushed palm sugar but it doesn't make much difference).
2 teaspoons tamarind concentrate mixed with 5 teaspoons water (this makes tamarind juice)
1 medium egg, beaten
1/4 cup chopped chives
1/2 cup roasted peanuts, coarsely broken up.
1 cup bean sprouts
1/2 cup tofu that has been diced (1/2" cubes), marinated in dark sweet soy. "Firm" tofu works best.

Method

Heat a little cooking oil in a wok and add the garlic and shallots, and briefly stir fry until they just shows signs of changing color. At this point one option is to add chicken meat and cook a bit longer, if you prefer chicken pad Thai. Add the remaining ingredients except the egg and the bean sprouts, and stir fry until the noodles soften (about 5 minutes). As you stir the noodles, periodically throw in 1-2 tablespoons of water, and after 2-3 minutes add 1 tablespoon of rinsed, salted radish (optional). Continuing to stir with one hand, slowly "drizzle" in the beaten egg to form a fine ribbon of cooked egg (if you don't feel confident with this make an egg crepe separately, and then roll it up and slice it into quarter inch wide pieces, which you add to the mix at this point). At this point, a very tasty but optional addition is a small handful of dried shrimps. Add the bean sprouts and cook for no more than another 30 seconds. Remove from the pan to a serving platter.

Garnish

Mix a tablespoon of lime juice with a tablespoon of tamarind juice and a tablespoon of fish sauce, and use this to marinade half a cup of uncooked bean sprouts, half a cup of chopped chives, and half a cup of very coarsely ground roasted peanuts. Sprinkle this mixture on the cooked pad Thai. Cut several limes into segments and also slice up some cucumber into rounds then halve the rounds. Put the lime segments and cuke segments around the serving platter.

Pad thai is served as above. You may add Thai chili powder, sugar and crushed peanuts at the table.

Milty said:

Love Pad Thai ....

Ocean said:

wanna come over then?

Milty said:

ahh but u said u did a bad job of it ...you better learn first

I love pad thai! Here's a great one:

• get in your car
  
• arrive @ 1600 Folsom Street, San Francisco CA
  
• enter Manora's Thai Cuisine
  
• sit, read menu
  
• order Pad Thai
  
• sip your drink from the bar while waiting, surely you ordered one
  
• inhale Pad Thai upon arrival
  
• grin in satisfaction

Let me know how it turns out

CalhounSq said:

Now, that's MY kind of Pad Thai!

superspaceboy said:

Mine too We have a great place here that makes excellent pad thai