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    Homemade Chicken Pad Thai

    Published: Mar 8, 2015 by Allison Ferraro · Modified: May 24, 2021 · 2 Comments

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    Forget takeout! This Chicken Pad Thai recipe will satisfy all your Thai food cravings, and it's dangerously easy to make at home!

    Forget takeout! This Chicken Pad Thai recipe will satisfy all your Thai food cravings, and it's dangerously easy to make at home!

    Pad Thai is easily my favorite Asian dish, and I've recently discovered how dangerously easy it is to cook at home. The length of the ingredient list may be a little bit intimidating, but most of the items are things that I usually have on hand. Besides, once the ingredients are chopped, sliced, and measured, the meal comes together very quickly. There's no need to order takeout when you can easily make some seriously delicious Chicken Pad Thai at home!

    Forget takeout! This Chicken Pad Thai recipe will satisfy all your Thai food cravings, and it's dangerously easy to make at home!

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    Homemade Chicken Pad Thai


    • Author: Allison Ferraro
    • Yield: 4 servings 1x
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    Ingredients

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    for the sauce:

    • 1 ½ Tbsp. lime juice
    • ¼ cup water
    • ¼ cup soy sauce
    • ½ tsp. Sambal Oelek (chili sauce)
    • ⅓ cup brown sugar
    • ⅛ tsp. black pepper

    for the noodles:

    • 8 oz. Thai rice noodles
    • 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
    • 1 tsp. cornstarch
    • 3 Tbsp. soy sauce
    • 2 Tbsp. vegetable oil
    • 4 cloves garlic, minced
    • ¼ tsp. crushed red pepper flakes
    • 2 cups fresh bean sprouts
    • ¼ cup chicken broth
    • ½ cup sliced carrots, for garnish
    • ½ cup shredded red cabbage, for garnish
    • ¼ cup cilantro leaves, for garnish
    • ¼ cup sliced scallions, for garnish
    • ⅓ cup roughly chopped peanuts
    • lime wedges, for garnish

    Instructions

    1. Make the sauce. In a medium bowl, whisk together all sauce ingredients. Set aside.
    2. Make the noodles. Boil water in a large pot. Remove pot from heat, add the rice noodles, and cover the pot, allowing the noodles to soak and soften for 8 minutes. Drain the noodles and rinse them with cold water to prevent them from sticking together.
    3. Cut the chicken breasts into thin slices (approx. 1 inch), and place in a medium bowl. In a small bowl, whisk together the cornstarch with the soy sauce. Pour the mixture over the chicken and stir to coat.
    4. Add vegetable oil to a large nonstick sauté pan and heat over medium-high heat. Add the minced garlic and crushed red pepper flakes and cook, stirring continuously, for 30 seconds. Add the chicken (including liquid) to the pan, and stir frequently until chicken is cooked through. Add chicken broth a little bit at a time to the pan while the chicken is cooking to prevent it from drying out.
    5. Add the noodles to the pan with the chicken and pour in the prepared sauce. Bring the sauce to a boil, and  lift and turn the noodles using two flat spatulas to combine all of the ingredients. Continue cooking the noodles for 1 to 2 minutes until the sauce thickens slightly, then add the bean sprouts and cook for 1 more minute.
    6. Transfer the noodles to serving dishes and garnish with the carrots, red cabbage, cilantro, scallions, peanuts, and lime wedges.

    Notes

    Recipe adapted from Just a Taste.

    • Category: Dinner
    • Method: Cooking
    • Cuisine: Thai

    Keywords: pad thai

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    1. Carmen

      April 07, 2015 at 1:47 am

      I'm properly obsessed with Pad Thai, never tried to make it at home though! This looks delicious 🙂

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      • Allison

        April 08, 2015 at 1:20 pm

        Isn't pad thai the greatest?! I love trying recreating great meals from restaurants at home, but this was the first time I tried to recreate a great takeout meal at home! I hope you give the recipe a try!

        xx Allison

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