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Living in LA during “fall” makes you feel like a bit of crazy person.
I’ll pull on my tall boots and a chunky sweaters that I am rightfully entitled to wear in late October, later realizing that the weather will creep up into the 80’s by mid day. And I’m the crazy lady at Starbucks ordering a pumpkin latte, wearing vintage Frye boots, jeans and a thick wool sweater while I could be wearing a jersey knit sundress like the normal, non-crazy, girl behind me in line.
And still, I persist. I even go home and make soup. Sweating the entire time I eat it. In my sweater, with the air conditioner running.
I spent three years as a vegetarian. The best thing I ever did when it comes to cooking, it opened up a world of produce to me and reminded me of all the foods I would often overlook just because they didn’t contain meat. To this day there are still things I prefer in a vegetarian or vegan form.
When it comes to thai cooking, fish and oyster sauce are frequently called for. Here is an article about how to make those, DIY style in your own kitchen using non-meat products.
There is also a company that sell vegetarian fish sauce, vegetarian oyster sauce, and Golden Mountain Season Sauce is a great alternative when those are called for.
And for Gluten Free, I hear this Kikkomon GF Soy Sauce is great.
Ingredients
- 3 tbs oil
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 egg (omit for vegan)
- 3 oz extra firm tofu, diced (or cubed chicken)
- 4 cups broth (veggie or chicken)
- 4 oz rice noodles (also called pad thai noodles)
- 3 tbs soy sauce
- 1/4 tsp sriracha
- 1 tbs fish sauce (For vegan, use adaptation listed in above post)
- 1/4 cup roasted peanuts, crushed
- 1/4 cup green onions
- 1 tsp crushed red peppers
Instructions
- In a large pot or dutch oven, heat the oil. Add the garlic and stir. Add the egg and cook until softly scrabbled. Add the tofu (or chicken), cook until lightly fried about 3 minutes.
- Add the broth, then add the noodles, soy, sriracha, fish sauce, and peanuts. Cook until noodles have softened, about 5 minutes.
- Serve topped with peanuts, green onions and red chili flakes.
I sweat and drink coffee in the middle of the summer – I Can relate to your sweater/soup/AC story. Lol
It sounds and looks awesome!
I also drive around with my seat heaters on in my car, and the windows rolled down 😉
Living in LA with this heat in October could definitely drive us crazy! I’d still make this soup and sweat it out – it looks amazing!
I would pretend its winter too if you were making me this delicious soup! absolutely love the flavors and your pictures are just stunning! 🙂
I cannot ever complain about the heat, I hate being cold and was bummed to wear some jeans this weekend in SF. Pad Thai soup is genius!
Looked like fun! I loved seeing all the instagram pics from Foodbuzz, sorry to miss it 🙂
I am the same way! This soup is definitely worth a little sweat! 😉
Why have I never thought to turn pad Thai into soup? Pad Thai is a favorite of Paul’s…I’m sure this will be a BIG hit! Oh, and come visit me, we have some great fall weather going on now!
My only complaint would be that the word “Pad” means fried in Thai such as “Kao Pad = Rice Fried” so it seems a little strange to have Thai Fried Soup.
Just my little issue that nobody else will have so I will go back to minding my own business. Looks great and I will have to try to whip up a pot of the vegan version soon. Oh and it was or is 87F here today.
Interesting! I should probably call it “Pad Thai Inspired Soup” since it’s more based on the favors of the dish, not an actually authentic Pad Thai dish.
Oh, oh, oh, Pad Thai…must make! I’d go with the Frye boots too. Super cute 🙂 No joke, I’m loving this – Pinning and definitely going to try.
Um YUM! I love pad thai so I KNOW I’d love this!
Yeah, I’m in North Carolina and even here, the seasons aren’t like they were when I lived in the midwest. It’s going to be 79 a few days this week, which is so odd for the end of November. But I’m not gonna complain when it’s in the 50s in January. This soup is amazing–I love Pad Thai so much!
i LOVE LOVE thai food – this looks SO perfect for the east coast fall/winter. i love it!
I love crisp fall weather, and I love that you’re feeling “fall” no matter what the weather is actually saying in LA 🙂 This soup looks incredible, and as always I just love your photos!
When I was in L.A this weekend, I was sweating balls it was so hot! In Seattle though, this soup is perfect for the fifty degree weather. It looks like comfort food for the soul.
It was crazy, right? Super hot, and it’s supposed to me in the 80’s and even 90’s through the next 10 days.
This post really made me laugh. I remember those California days. And now I live in Alaska, where there’s already snow on the ground and I haven’t had Pad Thai since I left California! Can’t wait to try this. Thanks! 🙂
Will omitting the fish sauce make a huge difference to the dish? This soup sounds great, but fish sauce doesn’t fit with my vegetarian diet!
Thank you! I just updated the post with info about vegan alternatives to fish and oyster sauce.
Is there a way to make it in the crockpot?
It actually only takes about 15 minutes. I wouldn’t even bother trying it in a slow cooker
Oh your soup is just to die for!!! How amazing!! I would gobble and slurp down about 3 cups of this!
It’s been freakishly warm here in NYC this fall, so I feel you! Yesterday, despite the 79 degree weather, I insisted we eat soup for 2 out of 3 meals and wear sweaters on our afternoon walk – crazy. This soup looks amazing – and I love pad thai, so this is sure to thrill me!
This soup looks like it’s worth the sweat! Any form of pad thai I love!
That looks so yummy, I love pad thai and I wonder how it would taste made into a soup!
And I feel for you for the heat in middle of the October, or maybe I am jealous? 😀
I love my Fall…but I’m really not crazy about the Winter coming, and we had Fall like weather for not even three weeks and now everything just looks a bi sad here, leaves are pretty much gone and now it’s just cold.
I’m totally waiting for fall like crazy! Even though we really don’t have winter here.
Pretty nice post. I like that you added a vegan option. I like to eat vegan meals once a week.
Usually I do not read comment on blogs, but I had to say that your photos are so beautiful! Prettiest soup i’ve ever seeeeen
That’s so sweet 🙂 Thank you so much!
Terrific soup! Looks amazing.
Nothing beats a noodle soup to warm the soul. Your recipe sounds lovely, can’t wait to try it!
We may need to swap locations because I would love to be sporting a tank top and flip flops right now ;). Your soup looks delicious!
This looks delicious. I’m always looking for new soup recipes, I’ll try this out today. It’s 60 in Boston so it’s kind of soup worthy weather here 🙂
I am completely intrigued by this soup. I am usually a purist when it comes to Thai food, but while I love ordering pad thai, I loathe making it because it requiring the perfect rice noodles and a TON of oil. Do you ever add sweet garlic sauce to it?
Sweet garlic sauce great. I like a little bit of chili oil also.
I love this idea! I think I’ll make it and add tamarind and white miso paste.
I completely love that idea. I give you my full endorsement for that version 🙂 I wanted to add tamarind, but 3 stores later and I couldn’t find any.
I made this tonight, and it was perfect! It literally took 15 mins to make, and I think the whole pot was devoured 15 minutes later. So good…thank you!
Yay! That makes me so happy 🙂
I just made this soup for dinner. What a hit! This is not only yummy but so easy. I made it with chicken but will try it again with tofu when my vegetarian son comes to visit.
I’m hooked. Thanks Jackie!
Unquestionably one of the best and fastest soups i’ve ever had!
I tried this it was soo good and could not have been easier. So simple!
I loved this! I added more tofu and noodles, and added some miso
Hi! I just found your website and tried this soup. Loved it! I added some cabbage and found this soup to be super-tasty…even in the hot weather of Grenada! I enjoyed it enough to write about it on my blog.
I’ll definitely be checking out your blog more. Thanks again!
Kristina
Yay! Cabbage sounds great in this soup 🙂
Just made this soup. Wowzer! So easy and so delicious!! Just sent the recipe to my family and close friends. This will definately be a recipe I make again and again!! Thank you!
Yay! SO happy about that, Amber!
Just made it, very good! I added bean sprouts and finely juliened carrots. And more siracha .. It’s 15 deg out…perfect!
That sounds perfect! I love those additions.
Cabbage have done great job its nice recipe . This soup is now become my favourite one thanks to introduce this one.
This recipe is great! We got back from Thailand and were craving a decent pad thai and this definitely did the trick.
I made the very poor person’s version of this because I’m.. very poor at the moment: garlic powder, the noodles I had on hand (flour vermicelli), omitted chicken/tofu and green onions and doubled the egg for substance. It still came out really well! The flavor reminded me a lot of Vietnamese Pho.
I love this soup. It is superb. Thanks for sharing. If you have more soup, recipes then please share. I am waiting for your response.