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The harmonious mix of sweet, sour, salty and umami flavors is the heart of the Pad Thai recipe.
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Pad Thai is the national dish of Thailand and covers flat rice noodles in all flavors thanks to tamarind paste, chicken breast, soy sauce and sugar.
Anyone who has ever been to Thailand already knows the popular national dish: Pad Thai.
And the dish is also known outside of Thailand, and its distinctive taste comes from one ingredient in particular: tamarind paste.
It is made from the fruit of the tamarind tree, which is native to Africa.
The seasoning paste is known for its sweet and sour profile, which is often described as a combination of dates and citrus fruits.
Ingredients such as soy sauce, fish sauce, sugar, chicken and lime juice bring the flavors salty, sweet, sour and umami into play.
Thai cuisine thrives on balanced taste profiles, which are expressed through a balance of aromas.
That's why it's hardly surprising that Pad Thai is promoted as THE Thai dish par excellence.
But other dishes, such as the chicken and coconut soup Tom Kha Gai and different types of curry dishes, such as the Thai fish curry, show how sophisticated Thai cuisine can be.
This is how easy it is to prepare a traditional Pad Thai:
You need these ingredients for a Pad Thai:
Pad Thai sauce:
30 ml fish sauce
30 ml tamarind paste
30 ml soy sauce
20g sugar
Chicken:
20 ml cooking oil
300g chicken breast, cut into bite-sized pieces
Pad Thai:
10 ml cooking oil
100 g onions, cut into rings
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
500 g flat rice noodles, cooked
2 eggs, whisked
70 g mung bean sprouts
40 g spring onions, cut into rings
Garnish:
Spring onions, in rings
Peanuts, roasted and salted, finely chopped
Lime juice, to taste
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Preparation is so easy:
For the Pad Thai sauce:
In a small bowl, stir together fish sauce, tamarind paste, soy sauce and sugar.
For the chicken:
Fry chicken breast in a pan with cooking oil until lightly browned.
Remove and set aside.
For the Pad Thai:
In the same pan, sauté onions, garlic and add flat rice noodles.
Pour over the Pad Thai sauce and stir until the noodles are completely coated.
Push the pasta to one side of the pan and let the eggs set in the pan next to it.
Then mix in the egg with the noodles.
At the end add the mung bean sprouts, spring onions and chicken and mix everything together.
Garnish with spring onions and peanuts to taste and season with lime juice.
Bon appetit!
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The harmonious mix of sweet, sour, salty and umami flavors is the heart of the Pad Thai recipe.
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