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Orla McAndrew's Pad Thai: Today

Ingredients

  • 8oz flat rice noodles
  • 3 tbsp rapeseed oil
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 8oz Irish prawns uncooked
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 red pepper
  • 3-4 spring onions
  • 1 bok choy or spinach
  • 2 limes
  • 1/2 cup salted peanuts
  • 1/3 cup coriander or substitute for mint and parsley mixed if you don't like coriander.

For the sauce

  • 3tbsp fish sauce (nam pla)
  • 1 tbsp soy
  • 5 tbsp light brown sugar
  • 2 tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2 tbsp smooth peanut butter
  • 1 fresh red chilli diced or splash of sriracha.

Method

  1. Soak the noodles in boiling water for four minutes. Blitz the sauce ingredients together.
  2. Meanwhile, in a hot pan add in the rapeseed oil and cook the prawns for 1-2 minutes until coloured.
  3. Whisk the eggs before pouring them into the pan and scrambling them.
  4. Add in the noodles, peppers, bok choy, crushed garlic, spring onions and half the chopped peanuts.
  5. Squeeze in the lime juice.
  6. Add in the sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
  7. Serve with extra coriander and a wedge of lime!