Grammy's Kitchen · Pad Thai · Gai Pad King (Thai Chicken and Ginger Stir-F
One of 136 pad thai recipes we measured
from www.seriouseats.com
3 cooks on www.seriouseats.com rate it 3.7★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 136.
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Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 68 g | 1/4 cup (60ml) fish sauce |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon (5ml) fresh lime juice from 1 lime |
| 5 g | 3 to 5 fresh Thai chiles (3 to 5g total), stemmed and thinly sliced into rounds |
| 15 g | 1 small shallot (15g), thinly sliced |
| 3 g | 1 small garlic clove (3g), thinly sliced |
| 11 g | 2 teaspoons (10ml) Golden Mountain seasoning sauce or light soy sauce |
| 8 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons (8ml) oyster sauce, preferably Thai |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon (5ml) Thai black soy sauce or Chinese dark soy sauce |
| 1 teaspoon (5ml) Thai fermented soybean paste | |
| 6 g | 1 teaspoon (5ml) fish sauce |
| Pinch of granulated sugar | |
| 35 g | 1 3-inch piece (35g) fresh ginger, peeled and cut into julienne, divided |
| 8 g | 2 cilantro roots (8g), cleaned and sliced (see note) |
| 1/4 teaspoon white peppercorns | |
| 20 g | 7 small garlic cloves (20g), sliced |
| 27 g | 2 tablespoons (30ml) vegetable oil |
| 225 g | 1/2 pound (225g) boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1-inch by 1/2-inch pieces |
| 8 g | 1/4 cup (1/4 ounce; 8g) dried wood ear mushrooms, rehydrated and torn into 1-inch pieces (see note) |
| 30 g | 2 fresh long chiles, such as cayenne, stemmed, seeded, and quartered lengthwise (see note) |
| 10 g | 2 scallions, green parts only, cut into 1-inch pieces (about 10g total) |
| Cooked jasmine rice, for serving |
Method: 6 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Bumping because this was the perfect use of me excess mushrooms and people evidently can't read. Nam pla is a condiment, would you mark down a Texas BBQ recipe because it told you to also try making some BBQ sauce? Also wood-ear mushrooms are used for texture ” — a cook, 5★
“This is okay. Agree with previous comment that the prik nam pla was really not needed. I also thought the poor mushrooms kind of got lost in the mix.” — a cook, 2★