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Pad Thai

Pad Thai

A Thai dinner made with seafood. Ready in about 30 minutes. Difficulty: medium.

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Ingredients

How many people?

− 5 people +

Changed from 4 to 5 people · Back to 4

Main ingredient

  • 9 oz tiger shrimps Shopping tip: Jumbo shrimp, raw (UK: king prawns). Frozen works.

Fresh & other

  • 6 oz rice noodles
  • Juice of 3 lime
  • 2 ½ tsp muscovado sugar Shopping tip: Dark brown sugar works (UK: muscovado).
  • 5 green onions Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
  • 6 oz bean sprouts
  • 1 oz peanuts
  • Handful cilantro
  • 3 limes

Sauces & oils

  • 2 ½ tbsp fish sauce
  • 2 ½ tbsp vegetable oil
  • To serve sweet chile sauce
Spices & seasonings (1): cayenne pepper
  • ¾ tsp cayenne pepper

How to make it

Steps in our own plain words.

  1. Put the noodles in a big heatproof bowl.

  2. Pour boiling water over them.

  3. Leave for 4 minutes.

  4. Drain and refresh under cold running water.

  5. Put the fish sauce, sugar, cayenne and lime juice in a bowl.

  6. Mix well.

  7. Have all your other ingredients ready by the cooker.

  8. Heat the oil.

  9. Fry the prawns until warmed through.

  10. Add the spring onions and noodles.

  11. Toss around.

  12. Tip in the lime juice mixture.

  13. Mix in your beansprouts and half the peanuts and coriander.

  14. Heat for 1 min until everything is heated through.

  15. Pile in a big dish, scatter using the rest of the peanuts and coriander.

  16. Dish up with lime wedges and sweet chilli sauce.

On the side: Cucumber salad

A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.

How to make it (10 min)
  1. Thinly slice the cucumbers.
  2. Toss with the rice vinegar and a pinch of salt. Let it sit a few minutes.

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Recipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.