Grammy's Kitchen · Pad Thai · Thai Meatballs
One of 136 pad thai recipes we measured
82 cooks on www.recipetineats.com rate it 4.9★.
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.
| 500 g | 500 g / 1 lb pork mince ((ground pork, or chicken)) |
| 1 tbsp lemongrass paste (or finely chopped fresh) (Note 1) | |
| 2 g | 1 tsp grated ginger |
| 9 g | 3 cloves garlic (, minced) |
| 3 kaffir lime leaves, stem removed and very finely shredded, optional extra (Note 2) | |
| 3 Thai or birds eye chillies (, seeds removed and finely chopped (Note 3)) | |
| 25 g | 1/4 cup coriander/cilantro (, leaves and stem finely chopped (Note 4)) |
| 4 g | 1 tsp sugar (any) |
| 17 g | 1 tbsp fish sauce (can sub with soy sauce if required) |
| 81 g | 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs ((+ extra 1/4 cup if needed)) |
| 50 g | 1 small egg |
| Oil spray | |
| 1/2 cup / 125 ml sweet chilli sauce (, store bought (Note 5)) | |
| 3 g | 1 garlic clove (, minced) |
| 31 g | 2 tbsp lime juice (, plus more to taste) |
| Coriander/cilantro leaves (, finely sliced large red chillies) | |
| Steamed jasmine rice |
Method: 7 steps, published by www.recipetineats.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Great recipe! So easy and baked not fried – even easier! I doubled this recipe (1kg pork mince) for a family dinner but had no lemongrass so I added 2 drops of Doterra Lemongrass oil instead. Served the meatballs with steamed rice, basic salad (shredded carrot” — a cook, 5★
“Very delicious flavours and super easy to make. I use a zesting microplane to grate the lemongrass, it works way better than chopping! The lime leaves (as a South African I cannot bring myself to use the K-word) really made the flavour, even though I used drie” — a cook, 5★