Pad Kee Mao Noodles (Drunken Noodles)

The key to a delicious pad kee mao is smashing fresh garlic with Thai chili to get a nice garlic chili paste. .

This noodle dish is one of my favorite noodles. I love the sweet and savory spice and texture. It is super flavorful, simple, and has a nice balance of sweet and savory flavors.

There are many stories about how the name of these noodles came to be. “Pad” means stir fry and “Kee Mao” means drunk/drunkie.

Together, the name is “stir fry drunk” or Drunken Noodles.

One story that I particularly enjoy is that one drunken night there was a person who came to a chefs food stall and asked for something delicious and quick to eat because he was drunk. So the chef whipped up the "extra spicy” noodles with all the scraps and leftovers they had. Which came to be the “Drunken Noodles”

Another story is quite simple, these noodles are just SO GOOD when you are drunk. Either way these noodles are a must try.

The brand of rice noodles that I like to use varies but you will find them in a clear package with various sizes.

The key to a delicious pad kee mao is making a fresh garlic and thai chili paste. I like making this fresh every time I make these noodles because that is the key to a spicy and aromatic pad kee mao.

My second tip is seasoning your rice noodles with a dark soy sauce so that you get that nice rich dark color on the noodles on top of adding sauce to the noodles when stir frying it.

There is truly nothing like a fresh hot plate of pad kee mao noodles. Especially, after a night out. It is spicy, sweet, and just hits the spot that we want it to hit! Bam!

Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles)

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Author: Peter Duong

Prep time: 15 MinCook time: 15 MinTotal time: 30 Min

This Pad Kee Mao is super delicious and a hit after a night out. OR if you crave something, savory, sweet, and spicy with the best textures.

Ingredients

Sauce Ingredients

• 2 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
• 1 Tbsp Fish Sauce
• 1 Tbsp Soy Sauce
• 1 Tbsp Honey or palm Sugar or brown sugar (adjust to your liking)
• 1 Tbsp Dark Soy Sauce (it is thicker and sweet)

Noodle Ingredients

• 1 pack fresh rice noodle (can make 3-4 servings) so for every serving = 1 ratio of the sauce recipe. One pack you’ll need to make 4x amount of sauce
• 6-8 oz protein
• 1/2 red bell pepper
• 1/2 onion
• 5 clove Garlic
• 5 Thai chili
• handful of basil

Instructions

Instructions

1. Peal apart your wide rice noodles and season with 1-2 tbsp of dark soy sauce
2. To a mortar, pound your garlic and fresh thai chili into a paste
3. Prepare your chilis, onion, and peppers by chopping them up into thin slices 
4. Make your sauce by mixing all the ingredients into a separate bowl
5. To a hot wok, add your chili garlic paste (be careful the fumes will make you cough)
6. Add your onion and proteins (par cook) 
7. Add your wide rice noodles and toss
8. Add your sauce mix 
9. Allow noodles to char a bit
10. Add your fresh thai basil
11. Give it a mix and enjoy! 

Recommended Products:

Sweet Dark Soy Sauce

Seasoning Sauce

Dry Wide Rice Noodle

Nutrition Facts

Calories

649.93

Fat (grams)

5.40

Sat. Fat (grams)

1.28

Carbs (grams)

65.73

Fiber (grams)

9.13

Net carbs

56.60

Sugar (grams)

25.41

Protein (grams)

85.97

Sodium (milligrams)

3119.45

Cholesterol (grams)

19.84

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Noodle, Stir Fry, Asian, Meal, Drunk, Drunken Noodle

Noodle, Dinner, Lunch

Thai, Asian, Fusion

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