How to Make 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. Rice noodles - you can find these in the Asian foods section of the grocery store.

Tofu can also be used here as well. Vegetable oil - used for sautéing.; Brown sugar - to sweeten the sauce. This is added instead of the traditional palm sugar. You can cook Chicken Pad Thai using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Pad Thai

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

This Chicken Pad Thai recipe has been bringing in rave reviews for years, let me tell you why. Minimal prep time: Just boil the noodles, cook the chicken, whisk together the sauce, and throw everything in a pan. First prepare the rice noodles by bringing a large pot of water to a boil.; Add the rice noodles to the pot and remove the pot from the heat. A delicious balance of sweet, sour and salty flavors complements rice noodles and chicken in this quick and easy pad thai.

Chicken Pad Thai step by step

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.

We trimmed calories and boosted flavor by cutting back on the sugar you'll find in many restaurant versions. As with any stir-fry, be sure to have all your ingredients prepped before you begin--the steps move quickly once the cooking starts. 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. Pad Thai is a Thai noodle stir fry with a sweet-savoury-sour sauce scattered with crushed peanuts.