Low Cal Pad Thai!!!

I was really craving some sort of stir-fry this whole week, so tonight I decided to make Pad-Thai for my family and I. If you don't really know what pad thai is then allow me to quickly explain. It's an amazingly good dish of stir-fried noodles, with usually eggs, a variety of sprouts or vegetables, and tofu, chicken, or shrimp. The recipe presented below is very healthy and only has about 400 calories per serving (1 serving is about 1  1/2 cups). It also contains about 25 grams of protein, about 25% of your daily value of Vitamin C and about 20% of your daily value of Iron as well as it containing many other nutritional benefits. The recipe below serves about 3 servings. The great thing about this recipe is that once you have prepared everything (let the noodles soak and cut the vegetable and such) It only takes about 10 mins to make! It is very quick and very easy.

What you'll need:

7-8 oz of small shrimp - peeled and deveined

3 cloves of garlic - diced

2 cups of bean sprouts

1/2 a bundle of scallion greens - sliced

A quarter of an Onion (red or yellow) - sliced

2-3 tablespoons of dry-roasted peanuts - chopped

2 1/2 tablespoons of fish sauce

3 tablespoons of rice vinegar 

2 tablespoons of sugar

2-3 teaspoons of peanut oil

1 teaspoon of chili-garlic sauce **(see bottom of page)

1 large egg (can add another if you want more egg in it)

4 oz of dried rice noodles 

(I doubled the recipe so there is twice as much ingredients in the picture above then needed)

What to do:

1. Soak the noodles in a bowl of warm water for about 20 mins, or until limp and white

2. Heat peanut oil over high heat in a wok or large sauté pan. When oil is hot add garlic and stir-fry for a few seconds, until golden. 

3. Add the egg and stir for a few seconds until it is scrambled. Then add the onions and the shrimp. Stir-fry for about 2 mins, or until the shrimp turn pink and curl. ***(see bottom of page) 

4. Drain the noodles and add them to the pan. Use tongs to toss everything around in the pan, until noodles are soft and they begin to curl (2-4 mins)

5. Add the bean sprouts, scallions, vinegar, fish sauce, sugar and chili-garlic sauce to the pan. Continue to toss/stir-fry until the shrimp are fully cooked and the noodles are warm (about 2 mins)

5. Garnish with peanuts and serve!

**This chili-garlic sauce is pretty spicy. So if you do not like spicy food use half as much or do not put any in at all. I do not eat a ton of spicy foods but I definitely think its needed for flavor so I would no suggest taking it out completely but obviously it's up to you!

***It is important to always be stirring the things in the pan. If you let the food sit to long while cooking the eggs and some of the other items could burn so constantly be stirring or mixing the food in the pan/wok.