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Chicken pad thai recipe
Photo: Lily Banse

Chicken pad thai recipe

19 ingredients 10 min + 10 min 2 people openrecipes

An authentic pad thai, made delicious with palm sugar, tamarind, roasted peanuts and much, much more.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

884
Calories
79g
Protein
26g
Fat
83g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 17 ingredients — the other 5 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Shrimp 100g cooked 99
Oyster 6 medium (84g) 81
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lime juice of 1 lime (44ml) 11
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Cilantro 1 tbsp chopped fresh (1g) 1
Tamarind not in our table 0
Sauce not in our table 0
Bean not in our table 0
Coriander not in our table 0
Roasted Peanut not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 85 medium rice stick noodles
  • g fish sauce
  • 80 white sugar
  • ml grated palm sugar
  • 2 tamarind purée or oyster sauce
  • tbsp tomato sauce (ketchup)
  • 2 vegetable oil
  • tbsp eggs, lightly whisked
  • 2 shrimp paste
  • tbsp red onion, cut into thin wedges
  • 1 skinless chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced
  • tbsp chilli powder
  • 1.5 spring onions (scallions), cut into batons
  • tbsp bean sprouts, trimmed, to serve
  • 2 coriander (cilantro) sprigs, to serve
  • 0.5 chopped roasted peanuts, to serve
  • tsp white sugar, extra
  • 0.5 chilli powder, extra
  • 300 lime wedges, to serve

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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