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2024-05-19 07:17:15
Basil Stir Fry Brown Sauce
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Ingredients
- A tablespoon of oil for frying
- Six chopped cloves of Thai garlic (Western garlic will work but it’s not as pungent)
- A handful of minced pork
- A bunch of Thai holy basil
- Eight, or more, Thai green and red chilies (add more than you’d expect!)
- A teaspoon of fish sauce (or more to taste)
- A tablespoon of oyster sauce
- Half a teaspoon of sugar
- Quarter of a teaspoon of msg
Steps
- Peel and roughly chop the garlic and break the chilies in a mortar and pestle.
- Heat the oil in a pan then quickly fry the garlic until golden. Add the minced pork to the pan and stir, together with the garlic until just cooked. Add the chili and stir. Add the oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar and msg (you can leave it out but it raises the dish) stir then finally add the holy basil stirring until it wilts.
- Serve with Hom Mali rice, a crispy-edged, soft-yolked, fried egg and prik nam pla (fish sauce, lime juice and chopped fresh chili) to pour over the egg.
- You can swap the pork for minced or chopped chicken, crispy pork belly, prawns or squid; it’s all good. The important thing, as with all Thai cookery, is to taste for balance. It should be a rounded taste of fiercely spicy and salty, deep umami from the oyster sauce and msg with an afterthought of sweetness to hold it together. Enjoy!