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Pad Thai
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Course Dinner, Main Course
Cuisine Thai
Servings 2 people

Ingredients
  

  • 250 gr chicken, cut to strips or cubes [0.55 lb]
  • 150 gr white cabbage [0.33 lb]
  • 100 gr carrot (1 small) [0.22 lb]
  • 90 gr bean sprouts [0.2 lb]
  • 100 gr oyster or shimeji mushrooms [0.22 lb]
  • 100 gr leek or onion [0.22 lb]
  • canola oil
  • crushed peanuts

Sauce

  • 20 gr oyster or fish sauce (about a tbsp) [0.7 oz]
  • 40 gr low sodium soy sauce (~2.5 tbsp) [1.4 oz]
  • ⅓ cup water
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed or sliced
  • 4 shavings of fresh ginger
  • 1 tsp corn starch
  • 1 tsp sugar
  • ½ tsp low sodium chicken stock powder (optional)
  • canola oil

Instructions
 

The sauce

  • Heat a bit of oil in a small pot or saucepan over low heat.
  • Add the garlic and cook until the fragrance turns from spicy to sweet.
  • Add the oyster/fish sauce, soy sauce to the pot.
  • In a cup combine the corn starch and water until homogenous and add it slowly to the pot while stirring.
  • Add the rest of the ingredients and cook over low heat until the sauce boils gently and is in dark, partly translucent, shade. Take it off the heat.
  • For a smooth sauce pour the sauce through a mesh strainer to a bowl.

Prepare the chicken

  • In a pan over high heat with a bit of oil sauté the chicken until it is ready.
  • The chicken strips should be white with charred orange/light brown areas.

The Dish

  • Cut the vegetables - The onion/leek to small cubes, the cabbage to strips, the carrots to thin strips, and the mushrooms to reasonable sizes.
  • In the meantime heat a pot of water for the noodles.
  • In a pan or wok heat a bit of oil over low heat and add the onion/leek
  • When the onion/leek begins to become translucent add the mushrooms turn the heat to medium-high, and cook until they lose all their water.
  • When the mushrooms finish losing their water add the rest of the vegetables. The vegetables should cook for around 10 minutes. After around 8 minutes add the sauce and stir.
  • To have the noodles ready in time for the vegetables add them to the water so they will be ready with the vegetables (i.e. if noodles cook time is 4 minutes, add them to the pot 6 minutes after adding the vegetables to the pan). Cook time for the noodles should be written on the package.
  • When the noodles are ready, rinse them and add them to the pan. Stir until everything is fully coated.
  • Place on a dish and sprinkle with crushed peanuts - serve immediately.