Chicken Pad Thai

Overview
My sons love Pad Thai and this is one of their favorite Thai dish.  This is a stir fried rice noodle dish made with a sweet and sour sauce. You can make Pad Thai with shrimp or chicken or a combination of both. Here I have only used chicken.

Chicken Pad Thai

Pad Thai Ingredients

Ingredients
14 oz rice noddle
1 pound chicken breast cut into thick strips
1 1/2 cups Bean sprouts
1 cup chopped green onions
3 Eggs
1/2 cup crushed peanuts
1/2 cup chopped cilantro
1 Teaspoon crush red pepper flakes
2 Thai green chilly finely chopped
2 Teaspoons finely chopped garlic
5Ttablespoon oil
1/4 cup fish sauce
1/4 cup Soy sauce
1/4 cup Tamarind juice( made fresh with a lime size ball of tamarind)
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
Salt to taste
Lemon wedges
Tapioca powder - 1 tablespoon to thicken the sauce

Steps
1. Put the tamarind in 1/4 cup warm water and keep for about 15 - 20 minutes and then squeeze out the pulp and drain and keep aside the tamarind sauce.
2. In a big pot add about 1 gallon of water. When the water is hot turn of heat. Add the Rice noodle. stir and keep covered for about 10 - 15 minutes till the noodles are just cooked. Do not over cook the noodles. Drain noodles when done and stir with one tablespoon of oil and keep aside so they don't stick to each other.
3. Mix the fish sauce, soy sauce, tamarind juice and brown sugar in a bowl and keep aside.
4. Whisk the eggs well with a little salt and scramble in a pan with 1 tablespoon oil. Keep aside the scrambled eggs.
5. In a big wok heat reaming oil. When the oil gets hot add the finely chopped garlic. Saute few minutes and then add the red pepper flakes. Saute few minutes and add the chicken strips and a little salt to it and stir till the chicken is cooked well and all liquid drained.
6. Mix 3 tablespoon water to the tapioca powder and keep aside.
7. Add the cooked noodles to the cooked chicken along with all the sauce mixture. Stir well. Add half of the chopped green onions, half of the chopped cilantro, bean sprouts and half of the crushed peanut to this and mix well. Add the scrambled eggs to this and stir well.
8. Add the tapioca powder mixed with water to this and stir well to thicken the sauce. Taste and check if extra salt or sugar needed. Turn off heat

Serve hot with crushed peanuts, chopped cilantro, chopped green onions on top of each serving and a Lemon wedge.