On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:41:06 -0700, koko wrote:


>I'm going to try it other places and make it myself before I give up
>and decide I just don't like Pad Thai.

This is the infamous recipe from one of the 4th of July cook-ins that
Ray Bruman had. I heard that the person (Keith Rickert) that made
this dish got several marriage proposals because of this dish...

Christine

Pad Thai:


6 garlic cloves, chopped
1 lb meat (shrimp, chicken, pork, beef...in usefully small bits)
6 eggs.
1 cup chopped green onion
1 lb rice noodles
1/4 cup white vinegar
1 cup chopped cilantro
1 cup ground roasted peanuts. (No shells of course)
1/4 cup sugar
2 cups beansprouts
2 tblspoons chile powder,
1 tblspoons chile paste in soybean oil.
vegetable oil.
8 oz. sliced salted turnip/radish.
1/4 cup fish sauce.


Ok, make sure you have just about all of this ready before you start.
First of all, soak the noodles in lukewarm water for 40 mins to an
hour.
(Good time to get some of the other ingredients ready)
When finished soaking, just pour off the water.
Soak the radish in water for a few minutes, and pour off the water
and squeeze dry. repeat 2-3 times or so.
Heat up your wok with a bit of vegetable oil.
Mix the eggs as in for scrambled eggs, and toss them in the wok.
Cook until they are fairly 'hard', moving them around as need be
(but as little as possible). Remove them from the wok and
chop into slices, and set them aside.

Heat up some more oil (maybe 1/4 cup or a bit less) and add the
garlic.
When it is getting fragrant, before it starts to turn brown, add
the meat.
When the meat is about halfway done, add the
radish. When the meat is done, add the noodles and the vinegar
and cook until the noodles are soft. From here on out you have
to toss it a _lot_. Tongs might be useful. Dont step away for more
than about 20-30 seconds, cause you dont want it to burn.
Once the noodles start to get soft, add the eggs, the peanuts, the
fish
sauce, the sugar, the chile powder, and the chile paste. Continue
stirring and tossing, until the mixture is all evenly coated.
This usually takes about 5 mins or so, maybe a bit longer.
Remove this mixture from the wok and to another container.
Stirfry the beansprouts in the wok for maybe
1 minute, maybe 1.5, then add beansprouts, green onions, and
cilantro to the dish, and toss. Keep some unchopped cilantro
and green onions for garnishes if you want (you can take bits of
green onion, maybe 2 inches long, and cut one end (1-1.25 inches) into
very
thin strips while leaving the other end intact to get a very nice
garnish).