Phad Thai

Thai Chocolate cooking school is Chang Mai, Thailand.

Ingredients

• 100g (4oz) soaked rice sticks
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 2 cloves garlic, chopped
• 100g (4oz) chicken breast, thinly sliced
• 100g (4oz) crab meat, cleaned and picked over
• 100g (4oz) raw prawns, shelled & de-veined
• 2 tablespoons fish sauce
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• ½ tablespoon lemon juice or tamarind juice
• ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons crushed roasted peanuts
• 1 tablespoon ground dried shrimp
• 1 tablespoon chopped preserved radish
• ½ teaspoon ground chilli
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoon spring onion
• 100g (4oz) bean sprouts
• ½ cup shredded carrots

Directions

1. Soak rice sticks in hot water for 10 minutes until soft.
2. Heat oil in wok.
3. Add half garlic and stir-fry until golden brown.
4. Stir in drained rich sticks for a few minutes.
5. Put stirred rice into bowl.
6. Heat oil in wok. Add remaining garlic, dried shrimp, chicken, crab meat and prawns and stir-fry for 3 minutes.
7. Stir in rice sticks with the nam pla, sugar, lemon juice and pepper.
8. Cook for a few minutes and break the egg into the middle of the wol, stirring all the time. Then add preserved radish. ground chilli, bean sprouts, spring onions. Stir well.
9. Finally add crushed peanuts.