| Level: | Intermediate |
| Total: | 1 hr 5 min |
| Prep: | 40 min |
| Inactive: | 15 min |
| Cook: | 10 min |
| Yield: | 4 to 6 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 (12-ounce) pack dried rice stick noodles (sen lek)
- 6 eggs
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 2 tablespoons smashed garlic
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped onion
- 1/2 cup red bell peppers, julienned
- 1/2 cup green bell peppers, julienned
- 1/2 cup ground peanut
- 1/2 cup fish sauce
- 1/2 cup soy sauce
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons Thai pepper powder
- 1 cup fresh bean sprouts, for garnish
- 1/4 cup shelled peanuts, for garnish
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh cilantro leaves, for garnish
Instructions
- Soak the rice stick noodles in tepid water for about 15 minutes. Remove them to a cutting board and cut into 4-inch pieces then place in a strainer to let all water drain off, and set aside.
- Coat the bottom of an omelette pan with a small amount of oil and pour off excess. Beat the eggs together and add to pan forming a thin layer, and cook as you would a thin omelette. Remove from heat and chop cooked egg roughly and set aside, keeping warm until ready to serve.
- Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a wok or large skillet and add garlic, onion, and red and green peppers, and cook for 2 minutes. One at a time, add the ground peanut, fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar and pepper powder, stirring the mixture the entire time. (Note: chicken, shrimp, or tofu can be added to this dish at the saute stage.) Add the noodles and be sure to stir! The noodles tend to burn if not continuously stirred. Check to see if the taste of the dish is suitable to you, if not, then add in either fish sauce or soy sauce (both salty), or sugar (sweet). (Here is where a matter of preference comes into play.) To serve, place the noodle mixture on a plate, top with cooked egg and garnish with bean sprouts, peanuts and cilantro.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 6 servings |
| Calories | 525 |
| Total Fat | 23 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Carbohydrates | 63 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 4 g |
| Sugar | 12 g |
| Protein | 18 g |
| Cholesterol | 160 mg |
| Sodium | 3222 mg |
Reviews
This was so salty I couldn’t eat it. I actually began ladling out lots of the sauce so I could then replace it with water before the noodles fully cooked and soaked up all the saltiness. I did think it was really tasty after that. And it was still almost slightly too salty for me. I didn’t buy specialty soy or fish sauce, just stuff from the grocery store so maybe that is why, but if it needs authentic sauces to prevent it from being to salty it should have said so in the recipe. I made the whole dish only to have to really work frantically at the end to take out some of the sauces to be able to eat it. I was really disappointed. The only thing other than diluting the salt that I did different was I used siracha instead of Thai pepper powder because I couldn’t find any. I’d say this is worth it if you carefully add in your salty sauces to taste. I guess overall once I was done it was a great dish! Just be careful of the saltines.
Followed the recipe and it turned out wonderfly. My family really enjoyed it and it is now an asain favorite. and was not overwhelmingly salty.
it doesnt take a rocket scientist to see that fish sauce & soy sauce r both on the recipe & so u should expect it to be saltly. Especially salty if u dont normally add salt to ure meals or if like in this recipe ure not using a protien also.
Now simple common sence tell me that if ure not adding a protien to this recipe (which is sad, tofu or fish or anything would probly be great)……
& u dont normally add salt onto your food (like me…bc its not real healthy regardless of u having high BP or not)…..
then ,
duh, maybe u should use less of the soy sauce or less of the fish sauce!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-or maybe u should use only one=the fish or the soy sauce.
-or maybe u should use a low sodium version of the soy sauce & less fish sauce or maybe they sell low sodium fish sauce but i’ve never seen it.
or, etc. etc.
use your brains
eat healthy
tweek it to ure needs & stop complaining
Now simple common sence tell me that if ure not adding a protien to this recipe (which is sad, tofu or fish or anything would probly be great)……
& u dont normally add salt onto your food (like me…bc its not real healthy regardless of u having high BP or not)…..
then ,
duh, maybe u should use less of the soy sauce or less of the fish sauce!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-or maybe u should use only one=the fish or the soy sauce.
-or maybe u should use a low sodium version of the soy sauce & less fish sauce or maybe they sell low sodium fish sauce but i’ve never seen it.
or, etc. etc.
use your brains
eat healthy
tweek it to ure needs & stop complaining
It was so salty my family couldn’t eat it!!
IT LOOKED TASTY SO I TRYED IT AND IT WAS GOOD
Too salty for my taste. I added shrimp to mine, I would suggest chicken.