A delicious rice noodles that are stir fried with a homemade sauce, brings out the wonderful taste of the dish!
Pad Thai Sauce
1/2 cup tamarind concentrate
1/2 cup fish sauce or per your taste
2 to 3 disks of palm sugar
soy sauce (optional)
if you don’t want to use fish sauce you can substitute that with soy sauce
soy sauce depending on how much fish sauce you have used
Put all the ingredients in a pan and let cook until the palm sugar dissolves
For the pad thai
3 tbsp canola oil
1 to 2 tbsp of sliced ginger
1 bag fresh rice noodles (16oz)
2 cups cooked sirloin steak cut in long thin strips
1/2 of a big onion sliced thinly
1 cup carrots (match stick) or you can sherd it
3 eggs
2 cups bean sprouts or as much as you like
5 to 6 spring onions cut in 1 inch length (discard the ends)
1 fresh lime
lemon basil chopped (optional)
Method:
In a med wok add the oil, once the oil heats up add the ginger and garlic and let fry until fragrant, also go ahead and add the fresh ginger making sure not to burn the ginger and garlic, add the onions and stir fry for only a minute or so and move the mixture to the side in the wok and add the eggs in, cook the eggs and scramble them until nice and firm, mix all the ingredients together. Go ahead and add the noodles mix it gently if needed sprinkle some water on it to make them soft, the steam from the water will help make them soft. Next add the carrots to add some bright color to the dish next add the sauce and stir well to incorporate all the ing really well. Once the noodles are mixed well with the vegetables lower the temperature and add the sliced steak pieces, spring onions and beans sprouts. Mix everything together and give it a splash of lime. And if you want you can chop up some lemon basil and add that to the dish!! Transfer it to a serving dish and Enjoy!