Pad thai?

[Glaucus]

I'm usually great at getting recipes to work. But I'm having problems with getting a good pad thai. I can make ok pad thai', but not great.

I must have tried about 8 or so diffrent recipes now and they all fail.

So anyone got a decent recipe they know works well. How do restaurants get the pink colour, is it just a bit of tomato puree. Also the recipe I tried tonight had Tamarind extract in it. None of the others have.

How can such a simple dish be so hard to get right.

 

[Glaucus]

What is Pad Thai, sounds tasty

Thai dish

Basically
Rice noodles
Fish Sauce
Sugar
Chilli
scrambled egg
Garlic
Prawns (or chicken)
Spring onions.
Bean Sprouts
roasted peanuts

If you ever go to a Thai restaurant try it, it's simply awesome.

 

[Glaucus]

Do you have to put sugar in it? I mean, does it need to be sweetened?

yep, fish sauce is very bitter. But it's only 2 teaspoons worth. So not a lot between two or 3 people.

 

[Glaucus]

whats wrong with cat or dog meat? as long as it tastes nice.
No diffrent to seafood. (was trying to think of a meat scavenger we eat). Meats meat, if it tastes nice, couldn't really care what animal it came from.

 

[Glaucus]

You need some crushed cashew nuts to sprinkle over the top to complete it.

peanuts

 

[Glaucus]

and the trick is to do it well!

Yep, which is harder than it looks.

 

[Glaucus]

http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_recipes_pad_thai.htm

This recipe is amazing!!! I've cooked it loads before and is as good as any Thai resturant!

Thread revival
Thanks. Finely got round to buying the ingredients. Will let you know how it goes.

First time I've ever cooked prawns

 

[Glaucus]

Yep that's a great recipe. needs a bit more chilli and lime juice.


Apart from that it was great. Oh and I over cooked the prawns. But I've never cooked with them before.