Vegetarian Pad Thai – Pepkitchen

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup tamarind pulp
• 1/2 cup soy sauce
• 1/4 cup brown sugar (if you do not have brown sugar then use palm sugar or regular raw sugar or honey or)
• 1/4 cup honey
• 3 tbsp peanut butter
• 1 tbsp chili sauce (or as per the spice level needed)
• 2 tbsp peanut oil (or any flavorless oil but peanut oil gives a nice flavor to the dish)
• 2 tsp oil (to pan fry tofu)
• 2 garlic (finely chopped)
• 1/4 cup onion (petals )
• 1/2 green capsicum (cut into cubes)
• 1/2 red capsicum (cut into cubes)
• 1 carrot (sliced into round)
• 1 cup broccoli (florets, blanched)
• 12 french beans (cut into 2 inches and blanched)
• 12 mushrooms (sliced)
• 500 g tofu (or less cut into 1 x 1 inch cubes. We love more tofu and have used more)
• 500 g flat rice noodles ( I had used 2 x 250 gm packet of flat rice noodles)
• 2 tbsp roasted peanuts (roughly crushed into mortar pestle to sprinkle while serving)
• 2 tbsp coriander leaves (washed and chopped and some stems for garnishing)
• lemon wedges (to garnish )
• water (needed to cook the noodles)