Pad See Ew (Thai Stir Fried Noodles)

Pad See Ew – the well-known Thai stir fried noodles immediately from the streets of Thailand made at home! While Pad Thai is sweeter and nuttier, Pad See Ew is salty, balanced with a contact of sour and a fantastic chargrilled flavour which you'll be able to create at home!


Pad See Ew
Pad See Ew, which capability “stir fried soy sauce noodles, is an ultra well-known Thai highway meals meal and perhaps in all probability one of the foremost well-known noodle dish at Thai restaurants in Western countries.

You might have tried and been disappointed through special recipes within the past. It all comes down to the sauce. You ought to get the sauce right!

I can’t count number the place I originally got the recipe from. Probably from David Thompson, the noted Australian chef who has dedicated his life to getting to know the art of Thai cooking. I’ve made it so many occasions over the years, I can virtually make it with my eyes closed. (Not really….but you realize what I mean!)

So I needed to really degree the foods nicely to share the recipe!

Chopsticks pulling up Pad See Ew

What is going in Pad See Ew
Here’s what you desire for Pad See Ew. You can discover all those foods in huge supermarkets nowadays!

PAD SEE EW SAUCE
Pad See Ew has a sweet-savoury-touch-of-sour flavour, and here is made with a mix of here ingredients:

Dark soy sauce – for flavour and staining the noodles a darkish brown
Ordinary or pale soy sauce – for seasoning
Oyster sauce – key ingredient, it’s like 10 difference sauces blended up in a single bottle!
Vinegar – to stability the candy and savoury
Sugar – for sweetness
Ingredients in Pad See Ew sauce

Noodles for Pad See Ew
Pad See Ew is traditionally made with Sen Yai, which are wide, thin recent rice noodles which are normally now not really accessible. Even most Asian shops in Sydney don't promote them – you typically desire to move to a Thai grocery store.

So it's perfectly acceptable, and simply as delicious, to make them with any extensive flat rice noodles. I use dried rice noodles labelled as “Pad Thai” Rice Noodles (pictured below) simply due to the fact they're the widest accessible on the supermarket.

Once rehydrated, they’re essentially Sen Yai Noodles – simply now not fairly as wide.

CHINESE BROCCOLI
This is a key genuine factor in Pad See Ew. Otherwise identified as Gai Lan or Kai lan, it’s leafy and appears fairly special to broccoli, but you’ll discover a similarity within the feel of the stems (hence the name).

If you can’t discover it, simply sub with special Asian greens, or a mix of broccoli or broccolini + spinach.

EGG AND CHICKEN
Feel unfastened to make use of special proteins when you wish. But fowl is through far in all probability one of the foremost popular.


How to make Thai Stir Fried Noodles
Usually while making stir fried noodles, we toss everything collectively in a single giant pan or a wok.

But for Pad See Ew made at home, I do issues differently to greatest replicate a cafe flavour and minimise noodle breakage:

Cook fowl and vegetables first, then remove
Add noodles and sauce, toss to caramelise (just 15 seconds), then upload fowl and vegetables again in
Reason: A signature flavour in Pad See Ew is the caramelisation of the noodles. Restaurants and highway owners acquire this with tremendous powered fuel stoves with fiery warmth that you’ll through no capability discover in a residence kitchen.  The merely technique to replicate that caramelisation on the noodles on a residence kitchen range is to declutter the wok and prepare dinner the noodles separately – the noodles will caramelise in 15 seconds.

The special purpose is that rice noodles destroy when you toss them too much. Doing the two-stage toss makes it a lot simpler and sooner to disperse the sauce and convey the Pad See Ew together.

Trust me in this point. I’ve made a LOT of Pad See Ew at residence in my time, and the two-stage toss it the simplest and most nice technique!


COOKING EGGS – THE THAI WAY!
Also worth of observe – you’ll love the method the egg is cooked in Pad See Ew! Using a typical Thai technique, the special foods within the wok/skillet are driven to the part to make room to scramble the egg, then blended up with everything else.


As with all stir fries, as soon as you soar cooking, it strikes very fast! So have everything keen and in a position to throw into the wok simply due to the fact there’s now not time to be scrambling round the kitchen!

Ingredients:

NOODLES
200g / 7 oz dried vast rice stick noodles , or 15 oz / 450g recent vast flat rice noodles (Sen Yai) (Note 1)

SAUCE
2 tbsp darkish soy sauce (Note 2)
2 tbsp oyster sauce
2 tsp soy sauce (all aim or light, Note 3)
2 tsp white vinegar (plain white vinegar)
2 tsp sugar (any type)
2 tbsp water

STIR FRY
3 tbsp peanut or vegetable oil , separated
2 cloves garlic cloves, very finely chopped
1 cup / 150g / 5oz chook thighs (boneless, skinless), sliced (Note 4)
1 giant egg
4 stems Chinese broccoli (Note 5)

Instructions:
Chinese Broccoli - trim ends, cut into 7.5cm/3" pieces. Separate leaves from stems. Cut thick stems in half vertically so they're no wider than 0.8cm / 0.3" thick.
Noodles - Prepare according to packet directions and drain. Time it so they're cooked simply earlier than utilizing - don't depart cooked rice noodles mendacity around, they wreck within the wok.
Sauce - Mix meals till sugar dissolves.

COOKING:
Heat 1 tbsp oil in a really giant heavy primarily founded skillet or wok over excessive heat.
Add garlic, prepare dinner 15 seconds. Add chicken, prepare dinner till it principally modifications from pink to white.
Add Chinese broccoli stems, prepare dinner till chook is nearly cooked through.
Add Chinese broccoli leaves, prepare dinner till simply wilted.
Push everything to at least one side, crack egg in and scramble. Remove everything onto a plate (scrape wok clean).
Return wok to stove, warmth 2 tbsp oil over excessive heat.
Add noodles and Sauce. Toss as few occasions as attainable to disperse Sauce and make edges of noodles caramelise.
Quickly upload chook and veg again in, and toss to disperse. Serve immediately!

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