Pad Thai With Shrimp

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This easier-than-you-think look is simply a ringer for the Thai takeout staple. With chewy atom noodles folded into a sweet-tart sauce, it's an irresistible crockery that besides happens to beryllium casual to accommodate to your sensation (see the VARIATIONS, below). The look comes from chef-restaurateur Nongkran Daks, who famously bushed the marquee cook of "Throwdown With Bobby Flay" successful a 2009 pad thai battle.

If specialty Asian ingredients are hard to travel by, fearfulness not. We tested the look without the preserved radish and dried shrimp and substituted brownish sweetener for thenar sugar. While the spirit wasn't rather arsenic good rounded successful savory depth, it was inactive rather good.

You whitethorn find that this look is spicier than your emblematic pad thai. Feel escaped to trim oregon omit the magnitude of crushed reddish capsicum flakes.

Preserved radish, dried shrimp and pressed tofu are disposable astatine Asian markets. So is tamarind pulp, which you tin usage to marque your ain tamarind foodstuff (soak 3 tablespoons of compressed tamarind pulp successful 1 cupful of lukewarm h2o for 20 minutes and past strain). Tamarind pulp is besides disposable astatine Indian markets. Or usage tamarind concentrate, arsenic agelong arsenic you bargain the Thai merchandise that is thinner and lighter successful colour than the thick, achromatic ore much often recovered astatine Indian markets.

You volition person leftover pad thai sauce, which Daks recommends making a time successful advance. It tin beryllium refrigerated oregon frozen for up to respective months. The atom noodles request to soak successful acold h2o astatine country somesthesia for an hour.

Adapted from Nongkran Daks, chef-owner of Thai Basil successful Chantilly, Va.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 2-3

For the sauce

1 cupful tamarind foodstuff oregon tamarind ore (see headnote)
1 cupful thenar sweetener (may substitute airy brownish sugar)
1 cupful water
1/2 cupful food sauce
2 teaspoons good oversea salt

For the dish

4 ounces medium-width dried atom noodles (about 1/8 inch)
4 tablespoons to 5 tablespoons rootlike oil
1 spoon minced garlic
8 caller oregon frozen/defrosted shrimp (21- to 25-count), deveined; peeled with tails on, if desired
1 tablespoonful dried shrimp, finely chopped (optional; spot headnote)
1 tablespoonful saccharine preserved radish (see headnote)
3 1/2 ounces reddish pressed tofu, sliced bladed into 1/2-inch-long pieces (see headnote; optional)
2 ample eggs, lightly beaten
1/4 spoon to 1/2 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes (see headnote)
2 tablespoons finely chopped roasted unsalted peanuts (about 1/2 ounce)
1/2 cupful thinly sliced scallions oregon ail chives
2 cups caller legume sprouts, rinsed and drained
Lime wedges, for serving

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 3, utilizing 5 tablespoons of condiment made with tamarind concentrate)

Calories
530
Fat
26 g
Saturated Fat
5 g
Carbohydrates
60 g
Sodium
1610 mg
Cholesterol
220 mg
Protein
17 g
Fiber
3 g
Sugar
16 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 Nongkran Daks, chef-owner of Thai Basil successful Chantilly, Va.

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published May 21, 2019

Updated March 16, 2026