These quick and easy dishes are produced, distributed, sold and consumed at a dizzying pace. The problem I have with them are the 12,000-ingredient lists full of words only the brightest among us can pronounce. It seems these products are processed, full of preservatives, artificial flavors and artificial colorings -- all in the name of "quick and easy." It is therefore a comfort to find another great convenience product from Annie Chun's with great ingredients and taste. This Pad Thai dish takes 10 minutes to prepare and with just a few additional ingredients creates a complete meal.Making restaurant-style Pad Thai is as simple as cooking the noodles, sautéing some chicken, scrambling some eggs, and adding the rest of the contents of the box. I also added the recommended chopped peanuts, bean sprouts and green onions. All told there was enough delicious Pad Thai for three people, but as my appetite frequently exceeds that of three people I finished it off myself.
I like how Annie Chun's tries not to sacrifice authenticity for the sacred notion of "convenience." The noodles are made of rice flour and water. The sauce is made of brown sugar, water, tamarind, soy sauce, onion and shallot puree, fish sauce, canola oil, tomato puree, rice vinegar, garlic, corn starch, lime juice, spices and onion powder. And I'm pretty sure the box is made of a paper of some kind.
I am classifying this product as a "convenience" food but these days the straight-forward ingredients and need for a cooker might cause some to considered it quite "homemade."
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