Pad Thai

Ingredients

• Peanut oil

  Salad or cooking

  ¼ cup or 54g

• Tamarinds

  Raw

  ³⁄₁₆ cup, pulp or 23g

• Fish sauce

  Ready-to-serve

  ¼ cup or 72g

• Honey

  ⅓ cup or 113g

• Rice wine vinegar

  2 tbsp or 30g

• Crushed red pepper flakes

  ½ tsp or 0.2g

• Scallions

  Spring onions or scallions (includes tops and bulb), raw

  ¼ cup, chopped or 25g

• Garlic

  Raw

  1 cloves, minced or 3g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 extra large or 56g

• Cabbage

  Chinese (pak-choi), raw

  1 head or 840g

• Mung beans

  Mature seeds, sprouted, raw

  1 cup or 104g

• Shrimp

  Crustaceans, mixed species, raw

  8 oz or 227g

• Peanuts

  All types, raw

  ½ cup or 73g

• Fresh cilantro

  Coriander leaves, raw

  ¼ cup or 4g

• Limes

  Raw

  2 fruit or 134g

Directions

1. Put noodles in a large bowl and add boiling water to cover. Let sit until noodles are just tender; check every 5 minutes or so to make sure they do not get too soft. Drain, drizzle with one tablespoon peanut oil to keep from sticking and set aside. Meanwhile, put 1 tablespoon tamarind paste, fish sauce, honey and vinegar in a small saucepan over medium-low heat and bring just to a simmer. Taste and add more tamarind paste if desired. It should be piquant, but not unpleasantly sour. Stir in red pepper flakes and set aside.
2. Put remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat; when oil shimmers, add scallions and garlic and cook for about a minute. Add eggs to pan; once they begin to set, scramble them until just done. Add cabbage and bean sprouts and continue to cook until cabbage begins to wilt, then add shrimp or tofu (or both).
3. When shrimp begin to turn pink and tofu begins to brown, add drained noodles to pan along with sauce. Toss everything together to coat with tamarind sauce and combine well. When noodles are warmed through, serve, sprinkling each dish with peanuts and garnishing with cilantro and lime wedges.
4. Recipe by: Mark Bittman (source: https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1013121-pad-thai)