Vegetarian Pad Thai

Overview
Pad Thai is a stir fried noodle dish from Thailand. This is a very common Thai dish that you get in all Thai restaurants. Crunchy vegetable, crushed peanuts and soft rice noodles makes this a delicious and filling dish. You can make it as spicy as you like by adjusting the amount of crushed red pepper and red hot sauce.

Vegetarian Pad Thai

Ingredients for Vegetarian Pad That

Ingredients
Rice Noodles - 1 pound packet
Thin sliced carrot - 3/4 cup
Sliced celery 3/4 cup
Bamboo shoots - 3/4 cup
Baby Corn - 1 cup
Red onions thin sliced 1 1/2 cup
Finely chopped garlic - 2 tablespoon
Finely chopped ginger - 2 tablespoon
Crushed roasted peanuts 1/4 cup
Crushed red pepper 1 - 2 tablespoons
Sliced jalapeno or Thai chillies finely chopped( optional)
Finely chopped cilantro - 2 tablespoons
Sugar 1 teaspoon
Soy sauce 3 tablespoons
Vinegar - 1 tablespoon
Chilly sauce 1 tablespoon
Sesame oil - 1 tablespoon
Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoon
Salt to taste

Steps
1. Boil water in a large pot and immerse the rice noodles and cook per packet instructions. Drain noodles and keep aside. save some drained water.
2. Heat oil in a pan. When oil gets hot add the finely chopped garlic and ginger. Saute till the garlic starts getting light brown, Add the finely crushed red pepper flakes to this and saute few more minutes.
3. Add the sliced red onions t this and mix well. Add all the vegetables to this mix well add salt as needed and cook till the vegetables are just cooked.
4. Mix the soy sauce chilly sauce, vinegar, sugar  and pour this over the vegetables. Add the cooked noodles to this along with 3 tablespoon noodle water. Mix everything well. add sesame oil to this and mix again. You can also add chopped jalapeno or Thai chillies now and mix well (if using).
5. Transfer to serving dish and garnish with crushed peanuts and finely chopped cilantro.

Serve hot and enjoy