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สวัสดี!
My four hour “flight” from New Delhi to Bangkok got me to Thailand around 1
p.m. local time, so I was starving for some lunch when I “arrived.”
And what immediately comes to everyone’s minds when they
think of Thai food? Pad thai (ผัดไทย),
of course, a stir-fried rice noodle dish filled with a multitude of flavorful
ingredients and toppings. Thai cuisine is known for its complexity, variety,
and depth of flavor, and sweet, spicy, sour, savory pad thai reflects all of
those elements.
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For my tasty Thai lunch, I decided to take all of the
classic pad thai elements and put them on a pizza (yes, even the noodles)!
Haven’t you ever had spaghetti pizza? Not only is my pizza topped with a
traditional chicken pad thai stir fry and all of its garnishes, but its base is
also influenced by another popular Thai flavor—instead of tomato sauce, I
spread spicy peanut sauce on the pizza dough. I hope you enjoy my unique, mouth-watering chicken pad thai pizza!
This is the end of my three-week edible adventure; now I'm headed home to Philadelphia. But I won't stop "traveling" through cooking, so keep up with my blog for some weekend trips "abroad" this summer!
This is the end of my three-week edible adventure; now I'm headed home to Philadelphia. But I won't stop "traveling" through cooking, so keep up with my blog for some weekend trips "abroad" this summer!
Pad thai pizza:
2 chicken breasts
½ lb rice noodles
2 cloves garlic
1 medium carrot
1 red pepper
1 tbsp cilantro
½ cup tamarind paste
OR
½ cup lime juice and 3 tbsps brown sugar
2 tbsps fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp water
2 tsps cornstarch
½ cup peanut butter
¼ cup hoisin sauce
¼ cup canola oil
2 tbsps soy sauce
2 tbsps water
1 tbsp honey
2 1lb balls of store-bought pizza dough
3 cups mozzarella
½ cup bean sprouts
¼ cup crushed peanuts
2 tbsps green onion
1 tbsp lime juice
2 tbsps cilantro
2 tbsps Thai chili sauce or sriracha
1. First, prepare all the ingredients that will go in the
pad thai stir fry. Sauté the chicken and cut it into bite-sized pieces,
julienne the carrot and pepper, mince the garlic, chop the cilantro, and crack
and beat the egg. Then, cook the noodles in boiling water for 4 minutes.
Immediately drain them, and rinse them with cold water to stop the cooking
process.
2. While the noodles are cooking, whisk together the
tamarind paste (or the lime juice/brown sugar substitute), fish sauce, soy
sauce, and water, and cook it in a wok with the cornstarch to thicken it.
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4. Make the peanut sauce that will be the base of the pizza
by combining the peanut butter, hoisin sauce, oil, soy sauce, water, and honey
in a food processor.
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6. Cover the dough with the peanut sauce, then spread ½ cup
of mozzarella on each pizza. Put ½ of the pad thai noodle mixture onto each
pizza, then put 1 cup of the remaining mozzarella on top of the two pizzas. Bake the
pizzas at 425 degrees for about 10-12 minutes.
7. When the pizzas come out of the oven, top them with a
drizzle of chili sauce, a squeeze of lime juice, crushed peanuts, bean sprouts,
green onion, and cilantro. Use a pizza cutter to cut slices (or leave it as one
big slice for you and only you!). สนุก!