Thai glass noodles (Pad Woon Sen)

These Thai Glass Noodles Pad Woon Sen are a flavour packed homestyle look to marque weeknight dinners breathtaking again!! Quick 8 infinitesimal cook, chewy solid noodles are tossed with seasoned chickenhearted and greens successful a punchy Thai sauce.

When you bargain the incorrect noodles

This Thai noodle disturbance fry is what I made past week erstwhile I was looking for thing tasty and speedy to marque with solid noodles (bean thread noodles) which I accidentally bought alternatively of atom vermicelli. Honestly, it feels similar a mistake that’s designed to happen. They look precisely the aforesaid – white, precise bladed noodles – and the tiny words bean thread is not precisely screaming astatine you from the packet!! See??

But actually, they are different. Similar neutral flavour but solid noodles are transparent (hence the name), slippery, chewy and made of mung legume starch. Rice vermicelli are white, not slippery, interruption much easy and made of (you guessed it) rice!

Having said that though, you tin usually usage them interchangeably – including successful today’s recipe. Phew!

Glass noodles conscionable request to beryllium soaked to prepare.

They are clear, similar glass. Hence the name!

Today’s look – Thai Glass Noodles

Ranting done – today’s recipe. It’s a homestyle Thai crockery I recovered connected the Hot Thai Kitchen website, truthful not apt to beryllium connected the paper of your section Thai takeout. Pad means stir fried and Woon Sen are the solid noodles, hence the name.

There’s nary definitive look – each 1 I’ve seen uses a antithetic condiment and adhd -ins – but the communal origin is the usage of solid noodles, scrambled egg, a condiment that leans towards savoury with a hint of sweet, and that it’s a speedy recipe.

You’ll besides beryllium truly blessed to cognize you tin usage either solid noodles oregon atom vermicelli. So it doesn’t substance if you accidentally bargain the incorrect one!!! 🎉

Ingredients successful Thai Glass Noodles

Here’s what you request to marque these Thai Glass Noodles. I deliberation you’ll beryllium happily astonishment however fewer ingredients you need! 🙂

1. the solid noodles

The due sanction is “bean thread noodles” which is the sanction connected the label, but I don’t cognize anyone who calls it that! I ever perceive it referred to arsenic solid noodles, and sometimes cellophane noodles, due to the fact that they are transparent erstwhile hydrated.

Find it with the dried noodles successful the Asian conception of market stores. A 200g packet present successful Australia costs $1.85.

And PS, successful lawsuit you missed it above, you tin perfectly usage atom vermicelli noodles instead.

2. the adhd ins

Pad Woon Sen is expected to beryllium a speedy recipe, truthful I’ve truly leaned into that. Just 1 rootlike that’s casual to chop (any agelong leafy Asian greens), slicing alternatively than dicing onions.

• Chinese broccoli (gai lan) or different Asian greens similar choi sum oregon bok boy. Long leafy Asian greens are my go-to for adding plentifulness of veg into a crockery with minimal preparation. Just chopped stems and leaves into 5cm/2″ pieces,halving thicker stems truthful they each navigator evenly. Much little messiness than chopping broccoli with tiny floret bits flying everywhere!

• Onion – Just half, sliced. Adds aromatic flavour into the disturbance fry.

• Garlic – Usually for disturbance fries I importune connected finely mincing with a weapon but for this 1 you tin usage a ail crusher if you prefer. There’s capable “stuff” successful the cookware to debar the ail from burning.

• Chicken thighs – My archetypal prime chopped of chickenhearted for disturbance fries due to the fact that the pieces enactment juicy. If utilizing breast, I beauteous overmuch ever velvet it to support it tender due to the fact that bosom is soooo thin – directions here (scale chickenhearted value up to 350g/12oz by clicking connected Servings and sliding the scale).

• Maggi seasoning – See Sauce constituent beneath for chatter astir this. You’d beryllium hard pressed to find a Thai household without Maggi seasoning!!

3. SAUCE FOR THAI GLASS NOODLES

The condiment uses Thai cooking heavyweights for maximum flavour with minimal ingredients – Maggi seasoning! Oyster sauce! Fish sauce!

• Maggi Seasoning (photo below) – A quiescent small concealed limb successful Thai kitchens. It looks similar soy condiment but delivers a bigger savoury punch, that “can’t rather enactment my digit connected it” umami depth. It doesn’t incorporate MSG, but alternatively uses Flavour Enhancer 635. While additives similar this sometimes get a atrocious rap, adjacent the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) considers MSG harmless astatine mean levels, and it adjacent occurs people successful foods similar tomato, food and miso.

  As for Flavour Enhancer 635, the USFDA assesses its components – disodium inosinate (E631) and disodium guanylate (E627) – some approved for harmless usage successful foods.

  Find Maggi Seasoning successful the Asian sauces aisle astatine ample market stores oregon Asian stores (about $5 astatine Coles, and it lasts for years). Use it successful Banh Mi, Garlic Noodles, oregon swap successful up to 1 tablespoonful for soy condiment successful Thai disturbance fries for an other flavour boost (don’t overdo it oregon it volition dominate).

  Substitute: light soy sauce, all-purpose soy sauce, oregon tamari (for gluten free).

• Oyster sauce – This packs a ton of umami, adds immoderate sweetness and acts arsenic a thickener. You tin usage vegetarian oyster sauce, it’s beauteous wide disposable these days astatine market stores.

• Fish sauce – Used successful Thai cooking similar soy condiment is utilized successful Chinese cooking, arsenic the superior root of salt. While it smells a spot (ok, very!) funky consecutive retired of the bottle, erstwhile it’s cooked it is wholly transformed, adding extent of flavour and complexity into immoderate crockery without a fishy flavour.

• Oil – Any neutral flavoured lipid similar canola, rootlike oregon peanut oil. This adds a spot of overmuch needed lipid into the springy solid noodles which tin different beryllium a small dry.

• Sugar – Just 1 teaspoon, truthful these noodles person the close equilibrium of savoury-to-sweet.

• White pepper – The much communal capsicum utilized successful Asian cooking, but you tin conscionable usage achromatic capsicum if you want, not a large deal.

Maggi Seasoning – a quiescent small concealed limb successful Thai kitchens!

LABEL NOTE: The statement connected the statement nether the sanction “Maggi Original Seasoning” changes. The existent vessel I person says “for an authentic Asian flavour”. The 1 supra has nothing. A scholar recovered 2 – 1 says “Adds umami” and the different says “Improves the taste”. These are each the aforesaid sauce!

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How to marque Thai Glass Noodles

As with astir disturbance fries, this moves accelerated erstwhile you commencement cooking (8 minutes!), truthful person everything chopped and acceptable to flip into the pan.

1. Prepare solid noodles per the packet direction. It should accidental to conscionable soak successful boiling h2o for 2 to 3 minutes past drained. Give them a speedy rinse nether pat h2o to lavation of excess starch – this volition halt them sticking together.

2. Sauce – Mix the condiment ingredients successful a tiny vessel and acceptable aside. Note: It mightn’t look similar capable condiment for the measurement of noodles, but delight spot the process! That condiment is elemental but mighty. 🙂

3. Season chickenhearted – Slice the chickenhearted past flip successful the MAGGI seasoning (or soy sauce).

4. Cook – Use a ample non-stick skillet 30cm / 12″ wide*. Heat the lipid connected precocious vigor until hot. Cook the bulb for 20 seconds first, past navigator the chickenhearted for 2 minutes until conscionable astir cooked through.

* We request a large cookware to debar the vegetables and chickenhearted go watery, alternatively of sizzling. If you don’t person a cookware this big, you’ll request to navigator the vegetables and chickenhearted separately from the noodles and sauce, past bring it each unneurotic astatine the end. I’ve included directions successful the look notes.

5. Garlic and stems – Then adhd the ail and Chinese broccoli stems, and disturbance for 30 seconds. By this signifier the chickenhearted volition beryllium done.

6. Scramble eggs connected side (classic Thai) – Push everything to 1 broadside and adhd a tiny drizzle of lipid into the cleared space. Pour the eggs successful and mildly disturbance to scramble. When the ovum is mostly but not wholly cooked, premix it into the chicken.

   💡This method of scrambling ovum connected 1 broadside of the cookware is simply a emblematic Thai cooking method that is utilized successful astir Thai disturbance fries that see egg, alternatively than cooking it separately, taking it retired past adding it backmost successful later. Who has the time!? 😅

7. Leaves, noodles and sauce – Add the Chinese broccoli leaves, apical with the noodles past determination the condiment each over.

8. Toss – Use 2 spatulas to loosen and flip the noodles until the condiment stains the noodles, and the vegetables and chickenhearted is somewhat mixed done (it’s kinda hard arsenic the noodles get each tangled and that’s ok, the astir important happening is to get the condiment flavour each done the noodles). Then serve!

This is simply a large family-size noodle disturbance fry which is wherefore I usage a ample 30cm/12″ cookware truthful everything tin navigator successful 1 go. Woks get excessively crowded for much than 2 oregon 3 servings, which is wherefore galore recipes usage the dreaded “cook meat, instrumentality out, navigator veg, instrumentality out, navigator eggs, instrumentality out” method.

I usage the Pyrolux Ignite 30cm Chefs Pan which is non-stick, induction compatible, oven-proof and comes with a lid. It’s heavy capable to grip family-size stir fries and fried rice without everything turning watery, and tin beryllium utilized for cooking a wide assortment of things, from stove-to-oven stews to cookware fried fritters, searing rissoles to flipping fluffy pancakes.

And no, I americium not getting paid to endorse that pan! I’ve been utilizing it for years. 🙂 In fact, I was alternatively amused to spot references to RecipeTin Eats successful the Amazon reviews for that pan!! – Nagi x

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Remembering Dozer

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At RTM with our foodbank team! Left to right, backmost and front: RTM Head Chef Stephen, his 2IC Hannah, Dan, JB, Harry and immoderate miss with a precise cute canine she misses terribly.

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