For Making Pad Thai sauce – in a saucepan, add all the ingredients given under the sauce. Mix well, and cook it until it reduces to a saucy consistency. In between, adjust the sweetness or tangyness as per your taste. Keep aside and let it cool.

FBoil the noodles (a little underdone), rinse under cold water, drain and keep aside.

Heat 3 tbsp oil In a deep frying pan. Add the shrimps and cook on high heat till they turn pink. Drain and keep aside.

In the same pan, add the onion, and spring onion whites, and garlic and stir-fry. Take care not to burn them.
Add the noodles and stir fry for 2 minutes.

Add the prepared Pad Thai sauce, a little at a time, stirring continuously. Add Only that much sauce, so that the noodles are well coated and slightly wet.

Add the shrimps and stir fry for 2 minutes.

Move the contents of the pan to one side, Add a tbsp of oil in the centre of the pan, and crack an egg over it. Quickly scramble the egg and cook for a minute.

Add the spring onions green stalks and the crushed peanuts, reserving a few for garnishing. Mix and stir-fry for a minute.

Remove Pad Thai into a serving plate and garnish with crushed peanuts, spring onions (greens), a few shrimps and lemon wedges.