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Toronto Pad Thai

Dinner 🍽️Lunch 🥪 Canadian 🇨🇦Thai 🇹🇭Fusion Vegetarian 🥦

Toronto Pad Thai brings a lively balance of tangy tamarind, bright lime, and gentle heat, coating springy rice noodles with tofu, eggs, and crunchy bean sprouts. Finished with roasted peanuts and fresh green onions, it offers a satisfying mix of textures and sweet-sour-savory notes. Great for a weeknight dinner or casual gathering, and easy to adapt with chicken, shrimp, or pork.

  • Prep25 min
  • Cook10 min
  • Serves6
  • DifficultyMedium
Toronto Pad Thai
  1. 1

    Put the rice noodles in a large bowl, cover them with very hot tap water, and let them soak for 30 minutes. Drain the noodles and set them aside.

  2. 2

    Stir the tamarind paste with boiling water in a bowl until evenly mixed, and let it sit for 15 minutes.

  3. 3

    Press the tamarind mixture through a fine-mesh sieve to strain it, and discard any fibers or seeds.

  4. 4

    Mix the strained tamarind paste with the ketchup, lime juice, soy sauce, sugar, and chili paste in a bowl.

  5. 5

    Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over medium-high heat until it shimmers.

  6. 6

    Cook and stir the garlic and tofu until the tofu develops browned edges, 3 to 4 minutes.

  7. 7

    Pour in the eggs and scramble for 30 seconds, then add the noodles, tamarind mixture, and bean sprouts.

  8. 8

    Cook and stir until the noodles separate, are heated through, and are coated with sauce, about 5 minutes.

  9. 9

    Sprinkle with peanuts and sliced green onions.

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