Description
Pad See Ew is a quick and easy Thai noodle dish, and perfect if you’re feeding those who might not like spicy or those who love it.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups of flat, wide rice noodles, dry or fresh
- 3 garlic cloves minced
- 2 eggs
- 2 tbsp cooking oil you prefer
- 2 chicken breasts sliced into thin bite sized pieces (or tofu or pork)
- 2 cups of Chinese broccoli, broccoli florets or kale
- 2 tsp of Thai sweet dark soy sauce
- 2 tsp of oyster sauce
- 2 tbsp of Thai light soy sauce
- 3 tsp of sugar
- 1 tsp white pepper
Instructions
- Boil the dry wide rice noodles for 4-5 minutes or so, until soft, and drain them. Or if you were lucky and found fresh rice noodles that are bagged, microwave them in the bag for a few minutes until the noodles are soft. Then gently pull the noodles apart, trying to keep them in long pieces if possible. If you can’t, it’s ok, it will still taste great, but just look different from traditional Pad See Ew.
- Peel the Chinese broccoli stalk. Then slice the Chinese broccoli into 2 in. pieces, cutting the stalk at an angle, and keeping the stalk pieces separate.
- Turn the heat to medium high. Fry the garlic until the aroma makes you smile with delight.
- Add the egg and scramble it a bit until it’s set.
- Turn the heat to high, and add the protein and keep stirring, until it’s almost cooked through, but not quite.
- Then add the Chinese broccoli stalk pieces since they take a little longer to cook than the leaves. Cook for about a minute or two until it softens some.
- Add in the noodles, soy sauces, sugar and white pepper and stir very gently, so the noodles don’t fall apart. Cook until you see the noodles have absorbed the sauce, should just be a minute or two.
- Add the Chinese broccoli leaves, and stir until wilted, should only take 30 seconds or so, and turn off the heat.
- Taste! Add more soy sauce if you like it saltier, more sugar if you like sweet.
- Have chili flakes or chili sauce, sugar and fish sauce on the table so everyone gets the perfect taste they love.
- Enjoy!
Notes
I only cook two servings at a time at most in the wok because if you cook more than that the noodles don’t cooperate and become a pile of mush.
With the soy sauces, to tell the truth, I don’t measure and instead add in a little until it tastes how I like. You can do the same, or stick by the rules.
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes