Chicken Pad Thai

We had friends over for dinner and I wanted to make something that I know we would all enjoy.  This Chicken Pad Thai is a really easy dinner that everybody enjoyed.  I made mine in the thermomix, but taste.com.au has a super easy regular recipe here.

Chicken Pad Thai

Serves: 6

Prep Time	Cook Time	Total Time
10 mins	45 mins	55 mins

Ingredients

• 500g chicken tenderlions
• 2 eggs
• 1L water
• 20g water, additional
• 200g flat rice noodles
• 1 carrot, thinly sliced or spiralised
• 1 zucchini, thinly sliced or spiralised
• 1 red capsicum, thinly sliced
• 1 onion, quartered
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled
• 10g coriander
• 1 chilli (optional)
• 35g peanut oil
• 20g tomato sauce
• 20g soy sauce
• 30g fish sauce
• 30g oyster sauce
• 90g sweet chilli sauce
• 50g brown sugar
• 250g bean sprouts
• 80g crushed or finely diced roasted peanuts

Instructions

1. Fill thermomix jug with 1 litre of water, place on lid.
2. Place chicken into varoma dish.
3. Wet scrunched baking paper, line on varoma tray not covering side vents.
4. Whisk eggs with water in a small dish, pour over baking paper in varoma tray.
5. Place the varoma ontop of jug and cook 10 mins / Varoma / Speed 4.
6. Check to see if omlette is cooked, if so remove from tray roll the omlette into a tight roll, slice into thin strips, then put aside in a thermo-server. The omlette may take longer if chicken is covering vents in varoma dish.
7. Move chicken around dish to ensure even cooking, place ontop of jug.
8. Continue to cook the chicken over jug of water in varoma dish 10 minutes / 100C / reverse / speed 1.
9. Place the noodles into jug with boiling water.
10. Place capsicum, carrot and zucchini into varoma tray, place ontop of varoma dish. Cook for 4 minutes / 100C / reverse / speed 1.
11. Drain noodles.
12. Place noodles and vegetables into thermo-server.
13. Shred chicken with fork, place into thermo-server.
14. Dry jug.
15. Add onion, garlic, coriander and chilli to jug, mix speed 5 / 4 seconds.
16. Scrape down sides mix again speed 5 / 4 seconds.
17. Pour oil into jug, saute remove MC / 2 minutes / 90C / Speed 2.
18. Add all sauces and sugar into jug, mix with MC / speed 3 / 5 seconds.
19. Place ingredients from thermo-server, bean sprouts and sauce from jug into a large bowl, carefully stir to combine.
20. Use tongs to serve into bowls, garnish with peanuts.

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