Pad Thai with chicken breast
At home in Thailand’s street food kitchens, now welcome on our plates: Traditional Pad Thai.
Fresh, crisp, and unmistakable. This exotic treat brings a buzz to your taste buds. And there’s more: this is a dish with legendary status. According to legend, to help reduce rice consumption, Thailand’s prime minister declared Pad Thai the national dish during the Second World War. By the way, the name of this classic roughly means “quick stir-frying in the Thai style”.
30 min
Total Time
15 min
Cooking Time
15 min
Preperation Time
Ingredients
| 1x | Hühnchenbrust |
| 100 g | Sojasprossen |
| 2x | Frühlingszwiebeln |
| 1x | Karotte |
| 1x | Limette |
| 1 Bund | Koriander |
| 200 g | Reisbandnudeln |
| 1x | Ei |
| 25 g | Erdnüsse |
| 4 EL | Sojasoße |
| 20 g | Tamarindenkonzentrat |
| Zusätzlich | |
| 4½ EL | Pflanzenöl |
| Salz | |
| Pfeffer | |
| Zucker |
Instructions
Step 1 of 9:
Bring a pot of water for the noodles to a boil. Peel the carrot and cut it into sticks approx. 0.5 cm wide. Trim the roots and top green parts from the spring onions and slice into fine rings. Wash the bean sprouts and let them drain.
Step 2 of 9:
Wash the lime in hot water, grate the zest, and squeeze out the juice. Roughly chop the peanuts. Beat the egg well with a fork in a small bowl. Finely chop the coriander, including the stems.
Step 3 of 9:
In a bowl, mix 3 tbsp. lime juice, 3 tbsp. water, 2 tbsp. oil, lime zest, tamarind extract, and soy sauce into a marinade. Season with ½ tsp. salt and 3 tsp. sugar. Cut the chicken breast into strips approx. 1 cm wide and season with ½ tsp. salt.
Step 4 of 9:
Add the rice noodles together with 1 tbsp. salt to the boiling water, remove from the heat, and let steep covered for 3 minutes. Then drain and toss in the pot with 1 tsp. oil.
Step 5 of 9:
Heat 2 tbsp. oil in a Frying Pan over high heat and sear the chicken breast all over for 1 minute at high temperature. Then add the carrots and fry for 2 minutes over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
Step 6 of 9:
Add the tamarind marinade and bean sprouts to the Frying Pan and continue frying for 2 minutes over medium heat.
Step 7 of 9:
Add the rice noodles to the Frying Pan, mix thoroughly, and fry for another ½ minute.
Step 8 of 9:
Fold in the beaten egg and the spring onions and continue frying for 1 minute over medium heat.
Step 9 of 9:
Serve the Pad Thai on a flat plate and garnish with chopped peanuts and coriander.
