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Pad Thai

Sauce:

2 T Fish Sauce
3 T Brown Sugar (to substitute the palm sugar)
2 T Rice Vinegar + 1 T Brown Sugar (to substitute the tamarind)

Melt together over medium heat.

(Fair warning: the fish sauce stinks really bad until everything is combined.)

UPDATE: I always double the sauce and make all the noodles. Because leftovers. If you choose to double the sauce the recipe is: 1/4 cup rice vinegar, 1/4 cup fish sauce, 1/2 brown sugar.

While the sauce is melt pour boiling water over rice noodles to let them soften. I usually only use half the package of rice noodles.

Chop up all your veggies. I used sweet onion, shredded carrots, green onion, and zucchini.

Slice chicken into thin strips (or have shrimp or tofu ready).

Mince 3 cloves of garlic.

In a skillet or Wok heat up 3 T of vegetable oil on medium-high heat, add garlic and chicken (thinly sliced) or shrimp or tofu or whatever. Sautee for about a minute. Add veggies, stirring continually for a few more minutes.

If you have space to scramble an egg in your skillet, go for it. I used a separate skillet because I didn't.

Add the scrambled egg, drained noodles, and sauce. Toss it all together and keep tossing until everything is hot and the noodles and chicken are cooked through. (Note: Add red pepper flakes, red chili sauce, or sweet chili sauce if you want it to be spicey. I added a little sweet chili sauce because my little ones don't do super spicey.)

Once plated, add a squeeze of lime and top with chopped peanuts.

You can also add sprouts but those are not always available at my grocery store.

And that's it! Super easy. And delicious!

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