Recipe: Tasty Chicken Pad Thai

Chicken Pad Thai. A classic authentic chicken pad Thai made simpler than most other recipes. Additional vegetables such as eggplant, squash, peppers, green beans, broccoli, snow peas, and mushrooms can be tossed in as well. Push the egg to the side with the tofu and chicken.

I usually use A Taste of Thai brand. Chicken breasts or shrimp - this makes it hearty and adds protein. Tofu can also be used here as well. You can have Chicken Pad Thai using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Pad Thai

1. It's Half of package of Thai rice noodles, prepared as box instructs.
2. You need 1 pound of diced chicken.
3. You need 2 Tbs of EVOO.
4. It's 1 bunch of green onion, chopped.
5. Prepare 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
6. Prepare 1 cup of matchstick carrots.
7. Prepare 1 cup of broccoli slaw mix.
8. It's 2 Tbs of sesame oil.
9. Prepare 2 Tbs of brown sugar.
10. It's 2 Tbs of lime juice.
11. It's 3 Tbs of soy sauce.
12. You need 1 of squirt sriracha.
13. It's 1/2 cup of dry roasted peanuts.
14. You need 1/2 cup of chopped cilantro.

Vegetable oil - used for sautéing.; Brown sugar - to sweeten the sauce. This is added instead of the traditional palm sugar. Chicken Pad Thai was the first Pad Thai we ever made at home. Making the leap to noodles with fish sauce was big enough for our household, so we kept it as kid friendly as we could by swapping out the shrimp and tofu for easy (super thinly) sliced chicken breast meat.

Chicken Pad Thai instructions

1. Cook noodles according to package directions, set aside.
2. Heat EVOO in large skillet, add diced chicken.
3. Cook chicken until almost done.
4. Add green onion and garlic, cook until soft.
5. Add carrot and broccoli slaw mix.
6. Mix oil, sugar, juice, sauce, and sriracha in small bowl.
7. Add sauce to pan once chicken is thoroughly cooked.
8. Add noodles.
9. Simmer a few minutes and mix thoroughly.
10. Remove from heat and garnish with cilantro and peanuts.
11. I like to add the broccoli slaw mix to get more veggies, making this an easy one-pot meal.

Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts. It's made with thin, flat rice noodles, and almost always has bean sprouts, garlic chives, scrambled egg, firm tofu and a protein - the most popular being chicken or prawns/shrimp. It lacked true Pad Thai seasonings and accordingly taste. When I prepared the recipe the sauce appeared to be miniscule in comparison to the main ingredients (noodles chicken sprouts). This was a problem as Pad Thai noodles must soak up a lot of flavor in order to compensate for their lack of taste.