Thai Basil with Minced Pork Stir-Fry (Pad Horopha)
By: TheSocialNomad
Published: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 - 8:41am

Ingredients




0.5lb (250g) Minced Pork or Chicken
2 cups (50g) Thai Basil leave and flowers, cleaned, pat dry and stalk removed
4 clove Garlic, chopped roughly
4 Bird's Eye Chilli, de-seeded and sliced
1 1/2 tablespoon Fish Sauce
1 teaspoon Sugar
1 teaspoon Dark Soy Sauce
2 tablespoon Oil

Preparation

1 Heat wok on high heat and pour in oil. 2 Add in garlic and bird's eye chili and stir until fragrant. 3 Add in mince pork, stir and breakup mince pork into tiny pieces. 4 While pork is half cooked, add in dark soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar. 5 Stir well until pork is cooked, about 2 minutes and turn off heat. 6 Serve hot with rice.

About

This is one dish where its salty sweet flavor together with a good punch from bird eye chili mingles well with the Thai basil. This is considered as a street food in South East Asia particularly in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia. It goes well with a steaming bowl of rice.