Chicken pad thai with lime wedges and crispy onions
21 January 2017
super easy
3-4
A couple of years ago my sister was studying for her exams and she asked me if I could come cook for her so that she had more time to focus on her studying. I let her pick a recipe and she went for her favorite take-out meal ‘Chicken pad thai’, which was something I had only eaten once before so all I could do was keep my fingers crossed and hope it would turn out exactly as she was looking for. Luckily for me, she really enjoyed it!
Though it was the first time I made it, I decided to make my own pad thai sauce, instead of going for store bought. Now, it may seem a bit weird that I used crispy friend onions, but that’s because I just don’t like ginger, which is usually what they put on top of Pad Thai. I did serve it with some lime wedges, which give such a great contrast to the somewhat sweet sauce.
When I originally made this recipe I used some satay spices, which you can find everywhere in Belgium, but as I couldn’t find the same thing in Ireland, I decided to make up my own mixture that is somewhat similar and goes really well with this recipe.
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Ingredients:
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| 200g Thai rice noodles | |
| 3 eggs | |
| 350g chicken fillets | |
| 4 spring onions | |
| 200g bean sprouts | |
| 120g peanuts | |
| 2 crushed cloves of garlic | |
| 150ml warm water | |
| 2tbsp tamarind paste | |
| 4tbsp fish sauce | |
| 6tbsp sweet chilli sauce | |
| 6tbsp brown sugar | |
| 2tsp satay spices Can't find satay spices? Make your own mixture! Mix 2 teaspoons of paprika powder with 1/2 a teaspoon of black pepper, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1/2 a teaspoon of cayenne pepper and 1 teaspoon of nutmeg. Mix it together and you are good to go (remember to only take 2 teaspoons in this recipe, not the whole mixture) | |
| 1 chicken stock cube | |
| 6tbsp crispy fried onions | |
| 1 lime |
Directions
Remove the top (the darkest few cm at the top) and bottom(the little moustache) of the spring onions and finely slice them.
Cook the noodles according to instructions on the package, but add 1 chicken stock cube to the water.
Whisk the eggs together in a glass, heat up a bit of butter in a pan and fry the eggs until you have scrambled eggs.
Heat up olive oil in a frying pan and add the spring onions and garlic.
Dissolve the tamarind paste in the warm water, add fish sauce, chilli sauce and brown sugar and mix it all together and add it to the rest of the food.
Serve with some lime wedges.
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18 Comments
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Abby
When we were in Bangkok, we ate Pad Thai almost every single day! Thanks for sharing this recipe – hopefully I can recreate that flavor we’ve been longing for since we left Bangkok.
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Donna Hennessy
Beautiful Tine! I am eating way too much Thai food at the moment and this looks right up my street.
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Bianca Sasha
This looks so yum. pad thai is one of my favourite flavours!
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Nadia El Ferdaoussi
What nuts would you suggest substituting the peanuts for (not allergic just don’t like them)? Would cashews work?
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Tine
Absolutely, it would give it a bit of a different taste but it’ll go well with it for sure. I would opt for salted & roasted cashews though, so it’ll be even more similar!
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Maggie Unzueta
Love all your pictures. Everything looks amazing. Must pin for later. 🙂
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jovaniamichelepierre
I bought a pack of rice noodles and sauce to make pad thai but I didn’t love the sauce so might try this one instead!
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Mom Noms
Wow, power to you making your own sauce the first time you made it! That’s amazing! This looks delicious!
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Caption Da Fashion
This dish looks so YUMMY! I LOVE ginger and onion rings. So I’ll definitely put both of these on top of the Pad Thai. As far as the spices. I like red crush pepper. Do you think it’ll be too much being the it has cayenne pepper?
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Jessica Bradshaw
Wow! This looks so good. I love your food pics. You are very talented.
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Leah Hall
This sounds fantastic! What a delicious meal!
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Follow My Gut
Pad thai is a fave of mine and I love how delish this looks. If you ever need a taste tester, let me know!
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Shelly
I love pad thai but have never been confident enough to try it ago home. Maybe now I will!
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Chel Williams @ Oh Chel
I love – love – LOOOOOVE pad thai. Never actually attempted to cook it before, but with this recipe I might give this a try. I like that you even placed a homemade version of the satay spices. I have everything expect the nutmeg. Bonus! Totally pinning this for a later use. Thanks so much!
This looks like a fabulous recipe! Pad Thai is one of my absolute faves but ~I would never have known where to start!!! Thank you!!
Sophie x
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