Steamed Prawns With Bean Thread Noodles (Goong Obb Wun Sen)

5.0 (1)

It seems similar yesterday that Nongkran Daks bushed personage chef-restaurateur Bobby Flay successful a pad Thai throwdown held astatine Thai Basil, her edifice successful Chantilly. Today, candid photos of the 2009 lawsuit dot the walls astatine seated oculus level. "When helium pulled retired the Kikkoman [soy sauce], I knew I had him," she says. Daks's pad Thai does not chopped corners and remains the champion rendition I've tasted.

The diminutive 70-year-old dynamo enactment this steamed crockery connected the paper erstwhile she opened Thai Basil 13 years ago, and she has been making it ever since. It is simply a favourite astatine her location "when we don't cognize what to make," she says.

It tin beryllium cooked successful a ceramic (clay) cookware oregon successful a small, deep-sided saute cookware with a lid. Korean and Vietnamese clay pots look somewhat antithetic but enactment the aforesaid way: Layers of spirit from bacon, cabbage and chickenhearted broth enriched with Asian sauces travel unneurotic successful minutes. Daks prefers to usage tiny metallic pots she brought from her autochthonal Thailand, which are wider astatine the apical to accommodate the noodle and shrimp layers of this dish. Regrettably, she hasn't been capable to find them successful the States.

Ingredients tin beryllium recovered astatine larger market stores, but buying astatine an Asian marketplace mightiness output the peculiar Thai seasoning condiment and optional cilantro roots that assistance marque this crockery sensation similar the 1 Daks makes.

The look doubles easily; physique a abstracted cookware and navigator it alongside.

From Nongkran Daks, chef-owner of Thai Basil successful Chantilly.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  270

• Fat

  13 g

• Saturated Fat

  4 g

• Carbohydrates

  28 g

• Sodium

  810 mg

• Cholesterol

  55 mg

• Protein

  9 g

• Fiber

  2 g

• Sugar

  6 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nongkran Daks, chef-owner of Thai Basil successful Chantilly.

Tested by Nongkran Daks and Bonnie S. Benwick.