Pad Thai

The formula

Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 136.

	this recipe	typical

Adapts cleanly: dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)

Ingredients

Weights computed by us.

	For the Rice Noodles:
112 g	4 ounces (112 g) pork shoulder, sliced very thinly into roughly 1- by 1 1/2-inch pieces (1/2 cup) (see notes)
11 g	2 teaspoons (10 ml) fish sauce
	Pinch of granulated sugar
40 g	2 tablespoons (40 g) palm sugar
35 g	2 tablespoons (35 g) tamarind concentrate (see notes)
34 g	2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon (35 ml) fish sauce
27 g	2 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon (35 ml) neutral oil such as canola oil
	Marinated pork, from above
70 g	1/2 cup (70 g) pressed tofu, cut into 1- by 1/2- by 1/4-inch pieces
25 g	2 packed tablespoons (25 g) sweet preserved radish
10 g	2 tablespoons (10 g) small or medium dried shrimp
20 g	1 small Asian shallot (20 g), cut into 1/4-inch dice
50 g	1 large egg
	Rehydrated rice noodles, from above
	Sauce, from above
25 g	1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons (25 g) water, plus more as needed
40 g	1 1/2 ounces (40 g) Chinese flat garlic chives, cut into 1 1/2–inch pieces (1 cup), divided
80 g	2 cups (80 g) mung bean sprouts, divided
25 g	3 tablespoons (25 g) crushed unsalted dry-roasted peanuts, plus more for serving
	Lime wedges, for serving
	Thai chile powder, for serving
	Fish sauce, for serving

Method: 9 steps, published by www.seriouseats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.

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“This made for a tasty pad thai, but stressing Chinese garlic chives had me scouring the Asian markets all over Orange County. Chinese grocery, Korean grocery... no luck. Inquiring about the chives resulted in confused looks, followed by the inevitable, "We don” — a cook