Yen Can Cook ~ Thai Basil Minced Pork
Phat Kaphrao or Pad Kra Pao/ Pad Krapow, is one of the popular Thai stir fry dishes that consists of meat such as pork, chicken or beef, stir fried with Thai holy basil and garlic. It is commonly served with rice and topped up (optional) with fried eggs. It’s usually a slightly spicy dish which involve chilies as one of the ingredients, but since Sam still cannot take spicy (=.=”), so my recipe would be a non-spicy version.
Ingredients (Serve: 3-4)
300g minced pork (can substituted with chicken or beef)
One handful holy basil leaves (Thai sweet basil or regular Italian basil will work just fine also if you cannot get holy basil)
1 tomato, diced
1 chili, sliced (I omitted and bird eye chilies can be used)
3-4 gloves garlic, minced
1 teaspoon lemon juice (optional)
Cooking oil
Sauce
1.5 tablespoons soy sauce
1/2 tablespoon oyster sauce
1 tablespoon fish sauce
2 rock sugar/1 teaspoon sugar
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Step 1: In a bowl, mix well all the ingredients for sauce.
Step 2: Heat up cooking oil in a wok/skillet, add the minced garlic and sauté until fragrant. Add the chilies and cook for another minute then add the minced pork, use spatula to break up the clumps and cook until changed colour.
Step 3: Add in diced tomato and stir fry for 1 minute, then pour in the sauce mixture (Step 1). Stir fry until meat, diced tomato and sauce are well combined. You may adjust the taste on this step, add soy sauce and fish sauce if under-seasoned or diluted with water if too salty.
Step 4: Add the basil leaves and stir-fry until just wilted.
Step 5: Drizzle with lime juice and serve.
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Ooo, another dish with my hated herb although you used very little Thai basil. Those I once ate at Thai restaurants were swimming in basil. >_<
Kris, I didn’t put much because Sam & hubby not fond of the taste & smell of basil. 😛
I love this dish and since I have basil in the garden, no problem. But I don’t like Italian basil. hah..hah…
PH, I really don’t know how to differentiate the types of basil, so I just throw in anything I have in hand, LOL
I need to be growing some basil plants!
KY, you can grow as much as you want in your big garden. ^__^
i can smell the beautifully intense aromas of your dish from my screen, heheh 🙂
Sean, wow, your pc/handphone/laptop so high tech! LOL