Chicken Pad Thai Recipe

Chicken Pad Thai is one of my all-time favorite Asian noodle dishes.

The popular Thai meal is not only tasty but healthy as well, and brace yourself, a super quick 20-minute prep and cook dinner recipe!

It's a win-win all along, and this chicken pad thai will be your next favorite recipe at home!

Trust me, I know what I am saying. 

Learn within a minute with the quick video how to prepare this chicken pad thai from scratch with a homemade pad thai sauce.

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• 📕 What is Pad Thai?
• 🔪 How to make Chicken Pad Thai?
• 📖 Recipe
• 💬 Comments

📕 What is Pad Thai?

Pad Thai is, as the name suggests, a Thai dish.

The word pad means fried in Thai.

Therefore, pad thai is a stir-fried rice noodle dish.

In Thailand, pad thai has a lot of meaning as it is connected to the history of the south-east Asian nation.

Chinese traders were omnipresent for centuries in Thailand an brought along their favorite meals.

Eventually, noodles became a thing just that Thai folks turned the usually Chinese egg noodles into rice-based noodles.

That is why broad rice noodles are used to make pad thai.

The Pad Thai sauce is another essential unique ingredient to the pad thai dish which makes it stand out.

Pad Thai sauce, made from scratch, consists of balanced flavors of sweet sour and salty.

The local Thai ingredients used which reflect the food soul of the country, are tamarind paste (sour), palm sugar (sweet) and soy sauce (salty).

The ingredients for an authentic pad thai can be varied as it depends on the region and town in Thailand.

Shrimp, banana flower and mung bean sprouts are common ingredients of a proper Pad Thai.

However, one thing is sure, a true pad thai doesn't include carrot and chicken as ingredients.

Yet, the rest of the world has embraced pad thai as their own, thanks to Thai fast food joints scattered around the world.

So, variations with chicken, carrot and cabbage have become the pad thai of the west!

🔪 How to make Chicken Pad Thai?

This particular Chicken Pad Thai Recipe was adapted from my local Thai take away, Nini's place.

I do not add carrot because I don't think it suits a pad thai dish.

You will follow the 3 stages to prepare this chicken pad thai to be quicker in your preparation and to work efficiently.

1. Soak the Pad Thai rice noodles - These noodles are not cooked but soaked
2. Peel, cut and keep your ingredients ready for the Pad Thai such as your shallots and chicken
3. Stir fry your ingredients, noodles with the sauce.

It would be the 4th stage if you had the prepare the sauce.

We have a homemade prepared pad thai sauce, therefore we save a lot of time since we don't have to prep the sauce.

More Thai meal ideas

• Thai Pineapple Fried Rice
• Pad kee mao
• Thai Coconut Chicken Soup - Tom Kha Gai

By the way, if you want to learn more Thai food.

I recommend checking out Pailin's Kitchen aka Hot Thai Kitchen.

I have been following her channel forever now and love all her dishes.

She published a Thai cookbook too, which is highly recommended if you are serious about Thai food!

Dear Reader, where did you get to try your first pad thai in your lifetime?

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