This easy and authentic Chicken Pad Thai is spicy and healthy. This homemade version will rival any Thai restaurant meal.
Pad Thai is one of my favourite Asian dishes, but something that I have only recently started making myself. When you get it in a restaurant, it is normally really greasy, so I have lightened it up a bit and here is my variation of it.
Today I have spent WAY too much time on Pinterest. Did you know I am on Pinterest? You can find me here. We moved house a few months ago and although we said we were going to decorate pretty much straight away, we were so stressed after just finding space for all our stuff, we just kept putting it off. Now we are a bit more organised, we are starting to think about what we want to do with the house - and what better place to get inspiration than Pinterest.
The first room to decorate will be the main bedroom. It is going to be pretty simple, just painting a feature wall behind the bed and then getting some bedside tables and then hanging some pictures/art.
The next project shall be the office. Which is currently the gym. The gym equipment is going to be moved into the second bedroom, as we don't have people staying too often, and it will free the smallest room up for the office, which is what it was originally intended for. Seeing as my main job is as a researcher (I work from home), and I am now spending a lot of time writing too (as well as this blog I am one of the editors for an awesome online music website called Guitar Cafe), the majority of my time is spent working on the computer, so it would be nice to have a dedicated place to do all of that and then at the end of my working day (I need to get better at having a working day, and not just working every hour I am awake), I can leave the computer and my work there and go downstairs to relax.
It will also be good to have some kind of filling system for all the bits of paper I have around the house at the moment. So - that is the plan and I thought Pinterest was going to help me and make the process that little bit easier, but it seems to have given me about 30 other projects I want to start.
Are you on Pinterest? Have you found any good ideas for your home on there?
How to make Chicken Pad Thai - serves 2:
Chicken Pad Thai
Ingredients
- 150 g chicken breast
- 80 g tenderstem broccoli
- 1 red bell pepper thinly sliced
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 100 g soba noodles
For the sauce:
- 2 garlic cloves chopped
- 30 g ginger peeled and chopped
- 1 tbsp honey
- 2 tbsp nut butter (we used almond butter)
- 2 tsp sesame oil (or olive oil)
- 0.5 red chili chopped
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 lime juice only
To serve (all optional):
- 4 spring onions (scallions) sliced
- 0.5 red chilli sliced
- 2 limes quartered
Instructions
- In a pestle and mortar, combine the garlic, ginger, honey, almond butter, sesame oil, chilli and fish sauce. Pound until smooth and set aside.
- Heat the olive oil in a pan and cook the chicken until browned all over, about 5-7 minutes.
- Add the pepper slices and broccoli and cook for a further 5 minutes.
- Put the noodles into a pan of boiling water and simmer for 4 minutes.
- To the chicken and vegetables, add the sauce and cooked noodles. Cook for a further 2 minutes.
- Serve with spring onions (scallions), sliced chilli and lime wedges (all optional).
Jill
Thank you for this recipe!! I love love love pad thai, but I agree, it's always so greasy! I just made this for the first time. It was absolutely Yummy and very similar to the restaurant version. Will absolutely make this again and again and again.
Jazmine
Wow! I made this tonight never having tried chicken pad thai. I've had a lot of foods, but I've never tried thai food. This was awesome!! I will definitely be making it again.