Easiest Way to Cook Tasty Authentic Pad Thai with king prawns

Authentic Pad Thai with king prawns. Here is the cookalong with my MasterChef sister @cookingwith_yui. Learn how to make an authentic Padthai with prawns. In Thai it's called Padthai Kuung Sod.

Add beansprouts and Chinese leek and stir through before. An authentic Prawn/Shrimp Pad Thai recipe from Spice I Am, a critically acclaimed Thai restaurant. To say it tastes incredible is an understatement! You can have Authentic Pad Thai with king prawns using 17 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Authentic Pad Thai with king prawns

1. You need 200 g of rice noodles.
2. It's 2 tbsp of cooking oil.
3. Prepare 1-2 of eggs.
4. Prepare 1-2 cloves of garlic.
5. Prepare 1 of shallot, finely sliced.
6. You need Half of pack of beans sprouts.
7. It's 200 g of king prawns.
8. Prepare 3-4 of spring onion or chinese chives, chopped about 4cm long.
9. It's 4-5 tbsp of Crushed peanut (optition).
10. Prepare 1 of lime/lemon.
11. Prepare 1-2 tsp of chilli flakes.
12. Prepare of Padthai sauce.
13. Prepare 4 tbsp of palm sugar or brown sugar.
14. You need 3 tbsp of tamarind paste.
15. It's 2 tbsp of fishsauce.
16. Prepare 1 tsp of soysauce.
17. You need of 1/2 cup water.

As you can imagine, after describing how authentic the Spice I Am dishes are, the Pad Thai recipe has more steps than my everyday version. Heat a wok with half the oil. Push to the side and add the remaining oil. Learn how to cook the most authentic Prawn Pad Thai with our exclusive recipe featuring lots of flavour and spice.

Authentic Pad Thai with king prawns instructions

1. Soak the noodles in a large bowl with hot water. Leave it for about 10 min so they start to soften..
2. Mix the Padthai sauce base together in a small saucepan. Heat on medium heat until sugar dissolve and sauce become a little thicker. Add some water and let it simmer for a few minutes..
3. On a big pan or wok, medium heat, add cooking oil in, garlic and finely sliced shallots, stir well.
4. Add your meat (in this recipe I use prawns) into the wok. Cook for 1 or 2 minute until the meat cooked through. Remove them to a plate. Leave it aside.
5. Add noodle into the same pan along with Padthai sauce, put 1-2 crushed peanut in, add some fish sauce or sugar or tamarind if needed and taste. Padthai should taste sweet, sour, salty and nutty. Stir well for about 10-15 min or until noodles cooked through..
6. Move your noodles on one side of the wok, add 1 tbsp of cooking oil and add some eggs in. Leave eggs to cook through for a few minutes before mix through with the noodles..
7. Add prawns (or hard tofu) back in the pan. Stir well, then add half of bean sprouts, spring onion or chinese chive and crushed peanut if you prefer..
8. Serve this delicious Padthai noodles with a wedge of lime and chilli flakes. You can have bean sprouts on the side too for an extra crunch..

Saiphin Moore from UK's most popular Thai chain Rosa's Thai Cafe visited School of Wok and showed us how to cook the most authentic Pad Thai. Juicy king prawns and tiny little shrimp all fried together with rice noodles in a sweet and spicy sauce. Finished off with crunchy peanuts, fresh coriander and a squeeze of tangy lime, this Pad Authentic Pad Thai does tend to be on the fishy side - mostly from the addition of fish sauce and shrimp paste. Heat the oil in a wok over a high heat. Add the garlic and prawns and stir-fry for two minutes, then remove and set aside.