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Pad Thai with Chicken and Peanuts
Pasta & Rice

Pad Thai with Chicken and Peanuts

A classic Thai noodle dish with chicken, peanuts and a rich sauce

⏱ 40 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
⚖ Pareve🥬 Vegetarian
Versions:Original🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Cooked pasta

  1. 1
    Soak the noodles 20 minutes in a bowl of hot water, until they soften.
    ⚙ SoakingBowl
  2. 2
    Drain.
    Colander

To assemble

  1. 3
    Heat the olive oil in a large wok over high heat and sauté the shallots and garlic in it about 1 minute.
    ⚙ Pan-fryingStoveWok
  2. 4
    Add the chicken and fry 4–5 minutes, until cooked through.
    ⚙ Adding to the hot fat and fryingStove
    💡Add by cooking time: what needs long (onion, carrot, meat) goes in first, and what burns fast (garlic, dry spices) goes in last, only until fragrant.
  3. 5
    Push the chicken to one side of the pan, pour the beaten eggs into the other side and scramble until cooked, then mix with the chicken.
    Stove
  4. 6
    Add the drained noodles and the soy sauce, vinegar and sugar and stir-fry everything together 2 minutes over high heat.
    Stove
  5. 7
    Add the bean sprouts and sesame oil and stir-fry another 30 seconds.
    Stove
  6. 8
    Add the lemon juice and toss.
  7. 9
    Serve topped with the peanuts.
659calories
33 gprotein
56 gcarbs
34 gfat
● protein 20%● carbs 34%● fat 47%

Per serving (299 g), of 4 servings

For the Cooked pasta · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (4) · 🍳 One cooking vessel

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Wok · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (Less heat on the sides; stir-fry in small batches)
  • Bowl · Also works: Pot (None)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)

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🧩 Built from…

Cooked pasta → Stir-Fried Noodles

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