Dinner · 25 min · Amounts not specified
Rice noodles with egg, peanut and lime
After Pad thai
Tamarind is traditional; lime and a pinch of brown sugar get you there. Peanuts last.
The sheet · 2 bowls · 25 min
mediumWhy tonight. Tamarind is traditional; lime and a pinch of brown sugar get you there. Peanuts last.
What it needs
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- rice noodles
- eggs
- fish sauce
- lime
- peanut butter
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: shrimp, scallion.
Method
- Soak rice noodles until they bend. They keep cooking in the pan.
- Hot pan: eggs, then noodles, then fish sauce, lime, and a pinch of peanut butter.
- Shrimp if you have them last. Scallion and crushed peanut off the heat.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardTruly Foolproof Poached EggsJ. Kenji López-AltPoaching without the wispy strands. The trick is what happens before the egg reaches the water.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- rice noodles
- They keep cooking in whatever they sit in, so they come out of the water early and go into the sauce underdone.
- eggs
- The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner.
- fish sauce
- Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.
- lime
- Sharper and more floral than lemon, and it fades faster — juice it the same hour you use it.
- peanut butter
- Fat, salt and body all at once, which is why it thickens a sauce as it flavors it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
Cooks from the same box
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Shrimp rice noodles
Make the sauce cold and first, sear the shrimp hard and last, and rinse the noodles so they stop cooking in the bowl.
Next
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