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Pad thai sauce

  • 60 g Tamarind Pulp
  • 60 g Fish Sauce or Soy Sauce
  • 50 g Palm Sugar or 30 g White Sugar
  • 10 g Paprika

Use tamarind pulp soaked only in water; no sugar, etc.

Add tamarind pulp, fish sauce, and sugar to small saucepan. Melt over low heat. Add paprika. Stir.

Sauce should lead with a salty flavor, followed by a mild sourness, then just a gentle sweetness and a soft caress from the chili at the back of your throat at the very end.1


  1. Techamuanvivit, Pim. "Pad Thai for Beginners." Chez Pim. 21 January 2007.