| Have you ever wonder if you need a Pad Thai sauce | | | | that I will be hard for the beginner to adjust the taste |
| to make your delicious Pad Thai dish? Well, the | | | | over such a short period of time. |
| answer is yes and no. For those who have never | | | | So now you decided that Pad Thai sauce is the way |
| tasted it before, Pad Thai is a stir fry noodle with a | | | | to go. Good news is that you don't have to spend |
| unique taste which is a very popular Thai food abroad. | | | | your fortune to buy it. It is easy enough to make it |
| For the sauce, it is nothing special but a pre-mix of key | | | | yourself. |
| ingredients. | | | | First, let's start with the original tastes. The recipe has 3 |
| If you have a chance to visit Thailand, you will find out | | | | main tastes sour, salty, sweet, and spicy (which is |
| that it is hard to find such thing on sale anywhere. | | | | scientifically not a taste). You can substitute any |
| However, searching the internet, you will learn that a | | | | ingredient with ingredient that can be found in your |
| popular shopping site such as Amazon carries it on | | | | area. It can be illustrated as follows: |
| sale at a high price which could buy you 50 ready | | | | 1. Salty : Fish or Soy sauce or Soy, or even just salt |
| made dishes at the local price. | | | | 2. Sour : Tamarind paste or vinegar |
| It doesn't mean that local Thais don't use it. For popular | | | | 3. Sweet : Palm sugar, Cane sugar, any sugar actually |
| noodle shops where many customers are waiting at | | | | 4. Spicy (optional) : dry hot chili powder |
| the same time, chef usually mixes ingredients in | | | | You start with half a cup each of fish sauce, tamarind, |
| advance to save time and to basically quality control | | | | and sugar. If you like it hot just add dry chili powder. |
| their taste. However, for smaller shop or home made, | | | | However, do note that spice it is not really a |
| ingredients are usually mixed over the wok. That's the | | | | mandatory, you can add hot dry chili later after the |
| main reason why it is hard to find it on any local stores. | | | | cook is done as well. |
| For the beginner, you will be better off pre-mixing the | | | | Mix all those ingredients together in a pot over a low |
| ingredients beforehand. The advantage is that you can | | | | heat oven. Taste and adjust the flavor balance until it is |
| taste it to see if the taste is right. The taste can be | | | | right for you. Continue to stir until it completely mixed. If |
| adjusted to perfection without any need to rush. To | | | | you plan to keep it in the refrigerator, cook it until it boils. |
| mix ingredients over the wok, you only have 1.5-2 | | | | Otherwise, just stir them until they are completely |
| minutes before the noodles are done. You can see | | | | mixed and you can start heating up the wok. |