This chicken pad thai<\/strong> is one of the most clicked recipes on my site, and I don’t think that’s an accident. Years ago I found a Thai recipe with a base I couldn’t stop thinking about. I rebuilt it my way: ingredients you can actually find, a method that doesn’t leave you guessing, and a lot more sauce than the original called for. Every single person who has eaten it at my table has told me the same thing. Best pad thai of their life.<\/p>\n The bones of this one come straight from Thailand. A friend over there read my version and called it near perfect. His only note was the tamarind, and I left it out on purpose. Not everybody lives ten minutes from an Asian grocery store, and I want my recipes to work wherever you are. White vinegar carries the sour side just fine. If you do have tamarind paste in the cupboard, use it, and I explain exactly how further down.<\/p>\n Homemade beats the restaurant here, and it isn’t close. At home you decide how long the noodles sit in the water, so they come out al dente instead of gummy. You decide how much sauce goes in, so nothing ends up dry at the bottom of the bowl. And the garnishes are cut minutes before they hit the plate: cilantro, crunchy bean sprouts, lime you squeezed yourself. Once everything is prepped, the whole stir-fry takes about twenty minutes at the stove. My kids ask for it every week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \ud83c\udf5c The recipe people keep asking me to make again This chicken pad thai is one of the most clicked recipes on my site, and I don’t think that’s an accident. Years ago I found a Thai recipe with a base I couldn’t stop thinking about. I rebuilt it my …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"chicken pad thai recipe","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Chicken pad thai recipe with shrimp, better than takeout","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"My chicken pad thai recipe with shrimp: rice noodles that stay al dente, a generous sweet-salty-spicy sauce, no tamarind hunt.","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_opengraph-image":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-title":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-description":"","_yoast_wpseo_twitter-image":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"recipe_category":[172,180,167],"sponsorship":[],"class_list":["post-1231","recipe","type-recipe","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","recipe_category-fishes-seafood","recipe_category-pastas-noodles","recipe_category-main-dishes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\ud83d\udd25 Built on a real Thai recipe, minus the tamarind<\/h3>\n
\ud83c\udf7d\ufe0f Better than takeout, and honestly easier<\/h3>\n