Instant Pot pad thai!
I made this pad thai recipe in my Instant Pot, basically. Short answer: I really liked it, and I can do it better next time. Longer thoughts under the cut.
I bought tamari sauce, but not fish sauce. I read you can replace fish sauce with Worcestershire (yes I looked that up) sauce, but turns out I just finished that, or you could use soy sauce, which I did, which was a mistake. I'm sure it was that which made the whole thing too salty. Next time: no fish sauce or replacement. I forgot to get scallions and that I also had no onions, so that was missing. I wanted more veg so I added zucchini before cooking; that rocked. I used chicken broth that I made using the water in which I cooked chickpeas, which had some good flavor already - maybe that added a little to the salt? I forgot to get bean sprouts, but I did get kale, and I added that with the noodles at the end. I used a brown rice noodle so I softened it first, and that worked perfectly. Obviously, no cilantro (tastes like soap) and no red pepper (allergic). Forgot to add peanuts at the end - it was too salty already and the only peanuts I have are also salted.
So: next time, no fish sauce, red peppers, cilantro; include scallions, carrots, zucchini before cooking, use a veggie broth with less ersatz chicken powder in it; add kale, broccoli, bean sprouts with the noodles. Lots of veggies, excellent chicken, excellent peanut butter flavor. This entry was originally posted at https://avivasedai.dreamwidth.org/741863.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
I bought tamari sauce, but not fish sauce. I read you can replace fish sauce with Worcestershire (yes I looked that up) sauce, but turns out I just finished that, or you could use soy sauce, which I did, which was a mistake. I'm sure it was that which made the whole thing too salty. Next time: no fish sauce or replacement. I forgot to get scallions and that I also had no onions, so that was missing. I wanted more veg so I added zucchini before cooking; that rocked. I used chicken broth that I made using the water in which I cooked chickpeas, which had some good flavor already - maybe that added a little to the salt? I forgot to get bean sprouts, but I did get kale, and I added that with the noodles at the end. I used a brown rice noodle so I softened it first, and that worked perfectly. Obviously, no cilantro (tastes like soap) and no red pepper (allergic). Forgot to add peanuts at the end - it was too salty already and the only peanuts I have are also salted.
So: next time, no fish sauce, red peppers, cilantro; include scallions, carrots, zucchini before cooking, use a veggie broth with less ersatz chicken powder in it; add kale, broccoli, bean sprouts with the noodles. Lots of veggies, excellent chicken, excellent peanut butter flavor. This entry was originally posted at https://avivasedai.dreamwidth.org/741863.html. Please comment there using OpenID.