Chicken Pad See Ew & Lager

Chicken Pad See Ew
Servings - 2

• 8 ounces of flat noodles box
• 1 T peanut oil
• 1 T garlic
• 1 chicken breast, cut into bite size pieces
• 2 T soy sauce
• 1 t brown sugar
• 1 t sweet chili sauce
• 1 T fish sauce
• 1 t cornstarch
• 2 handfuls, fresh baby spinach (could use broccolini, broccoli or Chinese broccoli as well)
• 1 egg, beaten
• Dash of red pepper flakes

1. Bring large sauce pan to boil, add noodles. Cook about 5 minutes until a little tougher then al dente.
2. Heat oil in skillet. Add garlic and chicken and cook until chicken is cooked through about 5-10 minutes.
3. While chicken is cooking add soy sauce, sugar, chili sauce, fish sauce and cornstarch to sauce pan. Cook about 5 minutes until warm and combined.
4. Add Spinach and cook until chicken is wilted
5. Add noodles to pan and mix
6. Add sauce to pan and mix until combined
7. In separate skillet or move mixture to own side and in hole, scramble the egg until thoroughly cooked.
8. Mix egg and rest of mixture together
9. Garnish with red pepper flakes.

This is one of our favorite meals when we eat it out at a Thai restaurant so it was only right to make a version at home. You definitely also make this with other proteins; shrimp is another of our favorites. Unlike a lot of Thai food, this is not spicy and well flavorful its generally fairly mild. This would pair well with the Thai beer, Singha which is readily available in the US, I actually drank this quite a bit while in the Philippines too as most their domestic beer is not very good and US imports were expensive.

However, I like to stick with American microbrews for my pairings. I like to think I can save the US economy by supporting local, American, small business breweries. Like Signha, I would pick a lager for this meal, something light a refreshing not to overpower the food. American lagers are quite common and most people have their favorites. I don’t like many of the large produced ones, but there are some gems.

Landshark lager, which is most often found in the summer, can be found in most liquor stores. It’s brewed by Margaritaville Brewing Company in Florida. As many people known this is brewed in conjunction with Anheuser-Busch and was launched by Jimmy Buffet. It’s similar to a Corona or Dos Equis, but in my opinion better and it’s local. It has a slight malt and slight hops taste. It’s very light and sweet. Very easy to drink and I even recommend it for those that don’t typically love beer.