2 October, 2012
Paleo Pad Thai
Posted in : Dinner, Lunch, Organic, Paleo, Seafood, Thai on by : wendland99
I had a ton of carrots and spicy peppers (red and green jalapeños and Serranos), so for dinner last night I thought I’d revisit this amazing paleo concoction! If you weren’t around for it the first time I made it, here’s my original post, and you won’t believe how these obscure flavors come together to make a Thai dish. The only changes are last night’s dinner had the earlier mentioned spicy peppers to replace the chili flakes, I had yellow onion replace the scallions, and I left out the egg and crushed nuts (because I was too much of a lazy bastard). But it was still friggin’ delicious! And the jalapeños and Serranos made it a 4 tissue meal (because it kept draining my sinuses and I had to keep blowing my nose). Enjoy this original post from April of this year:
Paleo Pad Thai (as promised)
Why this works, I don’t know, but it just does. I say why because at the essence of the dish, there’s absolutely nothing Thai about it. It all started the night before I went to the farmers market, and all I had left in the fridge for dinner were carrots and a jar of my caveman ketchup. I figured I could make some kind of sauce from the ketchup, so I defrosted a bag of wild caught shrimp and some chicken stock, and made long noodles out of the carrots just by using a simple peeler. Maybe I’d make some sort of barbecue shrimp dish.
I cooked down the carrot strips in the chicken stock, until they were soft. Then, I swear, all I did was add the caveman ketchup to the chicken stock and carrots, and I got very lucky with the result. It looked and tasted just like pad thai! I know it’s impossible, because my ketchup and pad thai don’t share a single ingredient, it just did. Maybe the look was so convincing that physiologically I thought it tasted like pad thai, but for whatever reason, it did! I cooked the shrimp up in a skillet, added garlic, and crushed red pepper (also known as chili flakes) to make it spicy, then threw the “noodles” in and tossed. In case you missed the pic from the other day, here:
The carrots felt just like noodles when you bite into them! I was even sweating and blowing my nose like when I eat really spicy pad thai. You don’t have to make it as spicy as I like it, but you will have to make your own caveman ketchup, you lazy bastards!
So tonight I added to the same recipe some cilantro, scallions, scrambled egg, and crushed brazil nuts (to replace the peanuts in the traditional dish) and this is what it looks like:
Come on now! Paleo Pad Thai, muthaf#*@er! No peanuts (or peanut oil), no soy in the form of soy sauce or tofu, no salt (again, impossible when using soy sauce), no corn starch, no rice in the form of rice noodles. All those ingredients in traditional pad thai are bad for your health, but this is pure food, and 100% toxin-free and organic! But none of that would matter if it didn’t taste fantastic, and it does! Remember, dieting does not mean deprivation! You can go paleo and still eat all your favorite meals too! You just have to work a little harder, but it’s worth it. Ugga-Bugga!
PALEO PAD THAI (all ingredients, all organic, all the time)
Wild Caught Shrimp
Caveman Ketchup
Carrots
Chicken Stock
Garlic
Crushed Red Pepper (optional)
Cilantro
Scallions
Egg
Crushed Brazil Nuts
Oil (olive or coconut)
P.S. – How amazing is my caveman ketchup?! It’s so versatile, it makes any dish delish!
