What Is Pad Thai? Origin and Recipe of The Delicious Dish

Origin of the Pad Thai dish

• Pad Thai is a traditional Thai noodle dish. The dish mainly consists of flat rice noodles. There are also eggs, tamarind paste, garlic, mung bean sprouts, and your choice of tofu, fish, or meat.
• During World War II, Pad Thai was the national dish. Luang Phibul Songkhram (then Prime Minister of Thailand) wanted to reduce the high rice consumption in Thailand. For the rice noodles, not only normal rice grains are used in the production, but also broken, destroyed rice grains.

In the Google Doodle: What is Pad Thai?

Today Google dedicated its Doodle to Pad Thai and asks the question: What is that?

• According to Google, the Doodle was developed by employee Juliana, who got to grips with the dish because she wanted to cook it with a friend.
• Today’s Doodle was created to let all Google users participate.

Recipe: The ingredients

The following recipe is designed for 2 people. For this you need:

• 100 g rice noodles (hot water by soaking the rice noodles a little)
• 100 grams of chicken meat
• 100 grams of tofu
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 3 spring onions
• 100 g mung bean sprouts
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp sunflower oil
• 2 tsp brown sugar
• 4 tsp fish sauce
• 6 tsp oyster sauce
• 1 cup of water
• Turmeric, some tamarind paste
• For garnish: chopped peanuts, chili flakes, and a lime

How to cook Pad Thai

1. Soak the noodles in hot water for about 5-10 minutes. They should then still be flexible, but firm to the bite.
2. Wash the chicken and cut it into strips.
3. Peel and chop the garlic. Wash the spring onions and cut them into fine rings.
4. Wash the mung bean sprouts and shake them dry.
5. For the sauce, dissolve the tamarind paste and brown sugar in 120ml hot water. Stir in the fish sauce and oyster sauce.
6. Rub the tofu with some turmeric and cut it into pieces.
7. Heat a pan. Add the sunflower oil.
8. Fry the garlic in it. Then add the chicken and tofu. Fry for about 1 minute, then set aside.
9. Add the eggs and the sauce you just mixed and mix well.
10. Add some water and the finished noodles. Finally, stir in the spring onions and mung bean sprouts and let the whole thing cook briefly.
11. Serve with chopped peanuts, chili flakes, and a lime wedge.