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Pad thai

Name: Pad thai
Total time: 42 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: South East Asian
Ingredients: 200g flat rice noodles; 200g prawns (or firm tofu); 2 eggs; 2 tbsp tamarind paste; 2 tbsp fish sauce; 2 tbsp palm sugar; 40g peanuts; 1 handful spring onions and beansprouts; 1 lime

Also known as ผัดไทย · phad thai · pat thai · pad thai noodles

Rice noodles fried with tamarind, fish sauce and palm sugar — sweet, sour and salty at once — with peanut, chilli and a hard squeeze of lime.

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Typical serving

640 kcal

usually 500–820 kcal

Typical nutrition for one serving
Protein	24 g
Carbs	78 g
Fat	26 g

Reference figures for a dish as it is commonly cooked — never a measurement of your plate. The range is the honest part: two kitchens make this differently. In the app, a photograph replaces the guess.

Before you start

tamarind paste
everything chopped before the pan goes on — it cooks in four minutes

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25munattended

42mstart to finish

Ingredients

Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard

200gflat rice noodles
200gprawns — or firm tofu
2eggs
2 tbsptamarind paste
2 tbspfish sauce
2 tbsppalm sugar
40gpeanuts
1 handfulspring onions and beansprouts
1lime

Method

5 steps

soak · 25m walk away
Noodles in warm water until bendy but still firm — they finish in the pan, and boiled noodles turn to paste there.
fold · 3m
Tamarind, fish sauce and palm sugar stirred together until the sugar dissolves. Taste it: sour, salty and sweet in that order.
chop · 7m
Everything else prepped and lined up beside the hob.
fry · 5m
Screaming hot pan: prawns out fast, egg scrambled in the space, noodles and sauce in, tossed constantly.
finish · 2m
Sprouts and spring onion through at the last second so they stay raw, peanuts and lime over the top.

Worth knowing

Pad thai was actively promoted as a national dish by the Thai government in the 1930s and 40s, partly to cut domestic rice consumption during shortages.

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