Thai Drunken Noodles Pad Kee Mao

This Thai noodle dish is a in reality ordinary equally in Thailand and in Thai restaurants backyard of Thailand. You is also shocked how quick and simple this recipe is to make!

Ingredients NOODLES 7 oz /200g dried rice noodles , titanic (Note 1) STIR FRY 2 tbsp oil (peanut, vegetable or canola) 3 huge cloves of garlic , minced 2 birds eye chilli or Thai chillies , deseeded, very finely chopped (Note 2) 1/2 onion , sliced 200 g /7oz hen thighs , cut into chew measurement items (breast ok too) 2 tsp fish sauce (or soy sauce) 2 inexperienced onions , cut into 3cm/2" pieces 1 cup Thai or Thai Holy Basil leaves (sub standard basil, Note 3) SAUCE 3 tbsp oyster sauce 1 1/2 tbsp faded soy sauce (Note 4) 1 1/2 tbsp darkish soy sauce (Note 4) 2 tsp sugar 1 tbsp water Instructions Prepare noodles per packet directions. Mix Sauce in a small bowl. Heat oil in wok or huge heavy founded mostly skillet over excessive heat. Add garlic and chilli and cook dinner for 10 seconds. Don't inhale - the chilli will make you cough! Add onion, cook dinner for 1 minute.  Add hen and fish sauce, and fry till cooked, round 2 minutes. Add inexperienced onion, noodles and sauce and cook dinner for 1 minute till the sauce reduces and coats the noodles. Remove from warmth and within the present day upload basil, toss till simply wilted, then serve immediately.  Recipe Notes: 1. Wide rice noodles - use titanic ones and practice per packet. I use ones labelled as "Pad Thai" rice noodles (see in post, right the following it's at Woolworths). Fine to make use of thinner ones for those who cannot discover titanic ones. 2. Chilli - 2 birds eye or Thai chillies provides this a good buzz of spice but will now not blow your head off! Feel loose to regulate to your taste. Can also use a dollop of chilli paste rather - upload it with the chicken. 3. Thai Basil - tastes like standard basil with slight aniseed flavour. Traditionally made with Thai Holy Basil which tastes like standard basil but most restaurants backyard Thailand use standard Thai Basil (easier to find, bought at Harris Farms and a few Woolies, Coles in Australia). Substitute with standard basil (it tastes like Drunken Noodles in Thailand!) 4. Soy Sauce - equally faded and darkish soy sauce could be substituted with all aim soy sauce (ie soy sauce that's simply labelled "soy sauce" with out "dark" or "light" or "sweet" in entrance of it).  Can also sub the darkish soy with extra faded soy. DO NOT use all darkish soy sauce - is also far too strong. 5. Nutrition per serving, assuming 3 servings. NUTRITION INFORMATION: Serving: 197gCalories: 454kcal (23%)Carbohydrates: 58.6g (20%)Protein: 22.9g (46%)Fat: 14.8g (23%)Saturated Fat: 2.4g (15%)Polyunsaturated Fat: 12.4gCholesterol: 79mg (26%)Sodium: 223mg (10%)Fiber: 1.5g (6%)Sugar: 2.7g (3%)

Get Drunken Noodles from the streets of Thailand, and except you've an first-class spice-o-meter, you’ll be chugging down the beer in an try to cool the burn on your mouth.

The quantity of chilli I’ve blanketed within the recipe is slight sufficient for many of us (I think), but sufficient so which you simply may style the heat. By all means, truly sense loose to turn up the spice dial!

There are all kinds of ameliorations of Drunken Noodles in Thailand or even extra within the western world. In Thailand the NULL constants are hen and Thai Basil, and fairly sometimes it got here with child corn as well, although from my examine I couldn’t ensure that this was a “must have” on this dish.

Get the widest dried rice noodles you may discover at your grocery store. Here in Australian supermarkets, the widest I can discover is labelled “Pad Thai”, although ironically, it’s in reality too titanic for Pad Thai!

Difference among Thai Basil and Thai Holy Basil - Thai Basil tastes like steady basil with a slight aniseed flavour. Holy basil has jagged edges and it would now not have an aniseed flavour, it tastes extra like Italian basil.

Outside of Thailand, restaurants sometimes use standard Thai Basil simply due to the fact it's simpler to discover than Holy Basil. I in reality have concern discovering Holy Basil in Thai grocery stores!

IS THAI BASIL THE SAME AS REGULAR BASIL?
Thai Basil isn't the identical as standard basil. It tastes like standard basil with a slight aniseed flavour. A very varied flavour which you simply recognise and love about your favorite dishes at your native Thai restaurant like Drunken Noodles and Thai Chilli Basil Chicken!

BEST SUBSTITUTE FOR THAI BASIL
Regular basil! In fact, Drunken Noodles is traditionally made with Holy Basil which tastes extra related to standard basil than Thai Basil!

How to make it
As with all stir fries and stir fried noodles, this strikes quick as soon as you leap cooking – round 6 minutes leap to end – so have everything prepared to move earlier than you leap cooking!

Comparison to unique ordinary Thai noodles
Whereas Pad Thai is nutty and sweet, Pad Kee Mao is spicy and savoury. Compared to Pad See Ew, the sauce of Drunken Noodles is lighter in shade and never as sweet

Better made at home
In Western Thai restaurants, Drunken Noodles are always very saucy, oily and salty – too a lot so in my opinion, and really unique from the streets of Thailand. So it’s truly good to be capable to make a fitter yet simply as tasty model at home!

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Thai Chili Basil Chicken Stir Fry
Pad See Ew and Pad Thai
Thai Red Curry and Green Curry
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Thai Fish Cakes
Chicken Satay with Thai Peanut Sauce
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Spicy Thai Noodles, a ordinary Thai take-out dish from the streets of Thailand! Make certain you've all meals prepared to toss into the wok as as soon as you leap cooking, issues occur quickly! Spice level: average to excessive (it's SUPPOSED to be spicy!)

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