Drunken Spaghetti With Shrimp (Spaghetti Khii Mao)

If you're looking to see a section writer connected your cookbook privation list, this look from Nongkran Daks's astir caller cookbook mightiness person you to spell successful the Thai direction. She's the chef-owner of Thai Basil successful Chantilly, Va., a maestro cook and cooking teacher who has collected her astir approachable dishes successful this slim volume.

As she explains successful the book, drunken spaghetti came astir successful the 1960s, erstwhile American soldiers began arriving successful Thailand successful ample numbers. They were homesick, truthful Thai cooks "Americanized" their accepted drunken noodles mentation by substituting the thinner wheat pasta for the wide noodles. Daks's rendition has a just magnitude of heat, acknowledgment to the agleam Thai chilies.

Do you hap to person 5 cups of cooked spaghetti successful the refrigerator? If so, you're mode up of the game.

Sweet soy sauce, sometimes called kecap manis, is disposable astatine Asian supermarkets. You tin usage adjacent parts molasses and low-sodium soy condiment instead.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  420

• Fat

  12 g

• Saturated Fat

  2 g

• Carbohydrates

  47 g

• Sodium

  1500 mg

• Cholesterol

  185 mg

• Protein

  30 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  9 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Nong's Thai Kitchen: 84 Classic Recipes That Are Quick, Healthy and Delicious," by Nongkran Daks and Alexandria Greeley (Tuttle, 2015). CORRECTION: An earlier mentation of this look omitted erstwhile to adhd the soy condiment mixture.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.