I love me some pad thai. I have been making it 1-2x per week for the last 5 years.
With shrimps, crispy beef, chilli beef, chilli chicken or fried tofu.
I could say that this is one of the dishes that i have really perfected over the years.
The only enigma that i am yet to discover is the sauce. I have tried to make it many times
without success, either too much fish sauce, either completely wrong taste or ratio, you name it.
So i just kept to my favourite thai place that sells me the sauce in big amounts so
i can divide it and freeze it. I have tried so many recipes, different ratios, ingredients etc.
i cannot come close to the sauce that they make, i even called them a couple of times stating i have
alergies so they could tell me whats in it, but still this doesn't make the full recipe. Even translating
my request in thai language and searching it on thai pages didn't bring the recipe that i need.
The sauce i am used to and want to make is red/orange color, not too fishy, not too sweet, just the right balance.
I know 100% that it includes:
-tamarind
-fish sauce
-palm sugar
-red paprika powder
-some form of tomato paste or concentrate
I also know that they cook it for an hour or 2, these are only bits of information i was able to acquire everytime
i went to purchase it :)
If anyone has any useful information or recipes, i would be very happy if you'd share them. This is the only part
of pad thai that is my weak point.
And i know many will say tomato and paprika are not authentic pad thai sauce ingredients, but this is the sauce
that makes my day. Have tried numerous brown colored sauces but they just dont work for me.
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i love me some pad thai