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The Minimalist Cooks at Home: Recipes That Give You More Flavor from Fewer Ingredients in Less Time Leafy Greens: An A to Z Guide to Thirty Types of Greens Plus Two Hundred Delicious Recipes As for protein, shrimp and tofu are the most common combination, but you could also use chicken, or just another egg.Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking Other ingredients are pretty flexible: bean sprouts are usual and cabbage is nice, but other vegetables are perfectly acceptable. Fish sauce (nam pla) is another important ingredient made from fermented anchovies (and much like the garum of ancient Rome), it has an unappealing smell and a fabulous taste. The paste, made from the pulp of the tamarind pod, is very sour, but more complex than citrus. Meanwhile, make a sauce from tamarind paste, easily found these days. Unlike semolina pasta, rice stick noodles don’t need to be boiled instead, you soak them in hot water until they’re tender. The first are the noodles themselves: rice stick noodles, which are pale, translucent, flat and range from very thin to more than a quarter-inch wide. It requires little more than chopping and stirring, and comes together in less than a half-hour.Ī couple of components might be unfamiliar to you. But it’s difficult to understand why more people don’t make it at home, since pad Thai is essentially a stir-fry (in Thailand they refer to it as a Chinese noodle dish). It’s easy to see why: the tangy, crunchy, slightly sweet noodles are irresistible. IN the last 20 years or so, pad Thai has gone from being virtually unknown in this country to being a restaurant and takeout staple.
