Best Pad Thai Recipe (no fish sauce) | Husband Approved

fish sauce

🥗Healthier: soy sauce

💰Cheaper: soy sauce

Soy sauce is easier to find and offers a similar umami flavor.

chicken

🥗Healthier: tofu

💰Cheaper: tempeh

Tofu provides a plant-based protein alternative.

sugar

🥗Healthier: honey

💰Cheaper: agave syrup

Honey adds sweetness with a unique flavor.

peanuts

🥗Healthier: sunflower seeds

💰Cheaper: cashews

Sunflower seeds are nut-free and maintain crunch.

Cook the pad thai noodles in boiling water for 4-6 minutes, drain, and set aside.

Meanwhile prep the rest of your ingredients. Chop your vegetables (shallots, garlic, ginger), cut chicken into thin slices, and whisk eggs. Add a pinch of salt into the eggs.

Whisk sauce ingredients together until mostly smooth.

Heat a skillet with oil and cook chicken. Once chicken is fully cooked, set aside.

Add more oil to the pan and cook the vegetables until soft, about 5 minutes. Add in bean sprouts and cook for another 2 minutes.

Move vegetables to one side of the pan and scramble the eggs, breaking apart into little pieces.

Add in the cooked rice noodles and the cooked chicken. Stir fry for a few minutes until fully integrated.

Stir in the pad thai sauce and cook until caramelized and the sauce is soaked into noodles. After a few minutes, squeeze half a lime into the pan and mix.

Serve warm and garnish with lime wedges, chopped peanuts, green onion, cilantro, chili pepper flakes, and bean sprouts.

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