Help with pad thai sauce

[geegee]

My DH and I made a pad thai recipe from the food network over the weekend.The sauce was Tamarind,fishsauce and sugar.It didnt taste the same as what we had at the resteraunt.Any help?

[bananacake]

Doesn't it usually have peanuts in it?

[mamaKristin]

My pad Thai sauce is:
3 tbsp lime juice
3 tbsp fish sauce
2 tbsp ketchup
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp grated ginger
1 tsp sesame oil
and a dash of hot sauce

[geegee]

Thank You Ill have to try that recipe.Sounds so good!By the way,Our Pad Thai has chopped peanuts sprinkled over the top but not in the sauce.

[mamaKristin]

You are welcome....now I want Pad Thai too. :)

[Meli]

The Pad Thai that I was taught to make by Thai cooks here in Thailand only has tamarind juice, sugar, and fish sauce in it :shrug3

Other ingredients in the recipe which will effect the flavour when all mixed together are: rice noodles, beam sprouts, tofu/meat, egg, pickled white radish, crushed peanuts, spring onion, dried shrimps, chilli powder, oil,salt and garlic.

[geegee]

That sounds like the sauce we made but its not the sauce we were used to .Do they have any other sauce recipe that they use for the noodles?

[Meli]

That sounds like the sauce we made but its not the sauce we were used to .Do they have any other sauce recipe that they use for the noodles?

I have found that "real" Thai food is a little different from Thai food in western Thai restaurants - they seem to tweak it for western tastes. That's the only recipe I have been taught so far.