Recipe: Delicious 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 achieve it.

Ingredients of Chicken Pad Thai

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

Vegetable oil - used for sautéing.; Brown sugar - to sweeten the sauce. This is added instead of the traditional palm sugar. 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.

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.

A delicious balance of sweet, sour and salty flavors complements rice noodles and chicken in this quick and easy pad thai. 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. 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.