Pad Thai Gung

THAI STIR FRIED NOODLES WITH PRAWNS

This is one of the typical street side dishes that you can find all over Thailand. The main characteristic feature of Thai food is to get all their basic flavours rolled into each dish: sweet, sour, spicy and bitter, varying in proportions.

Ingredients -
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon chopped garlic
1 large egg
6 pieces of tiger prawns, cleaned and deveined
150g flat rice noodles
1 teaspoon lemon juice
2 tablespoon tamarind juice
1 tablespoon fish sauce (or use salt to taste)
1 teaspoon sugar
¼ teaspoon chilli powder
4 tablespoons chopped spring onions
2 handfuls bean sprouts
2 tablespoons crushed peanuts

Method:
Soak the rice noodles in cold water and keep aside for 1 hour. Put the noodles in a colander and drain off all the water.

In a wok, heat the oil and stir fry chopped garlic till it turns golden brown. Add the prawns and stir fry on high heat for 1 minute. Then add the egg and scramble it for 30 seconds.

Add the rice noodles and stir fry for 1 minute till the noodles are half cooked. Add lemon juice, tamarind juice, fish sauce, sugar, chilli powder, chopped spring onion, bean sprouts and continue to stir fry on high heat till most of the liquid is dried up and the noodles would have cooked. This would take another 1 ½ to 2 minutes.

Remove the noodles into a serving bowl and garnish it with crushed peanuts.