Thai Spicy Pork Stir Fry with Basil.

If you’ve been following my column for a while, you may already know that I am a huge fan of South East Asian food. Whenever my family goes to a Thai restaurant in Taiwan we always order the “da pao zhu” — spicy pork stir fry with basil. This is absolutely one of my favorite stir fry dishes to make, too. It is so simple, with only a few ingredients, and yet there is so much flavor in it. This dish is also often made with chicken.

You will need:

Ingredients:

1 pound ground pork

6 cloves garlic

5 peppers

3 tsp. soy sauce

¼ tsp. fish sauce

½ tsp. granulated sugar

? tsp. white pepper

1 Tbsp. cooking wine

3 Tbsp. vegetable oil

Large handful of fresh basil

(Makes 3 to 4 servings)

Direction:

Chop up the garlic and hot pepper.

In a large non stick skillet, fry the garlic and hot pepper on high heat in vegetable oil for one minute. If you don’t like it too spicy, you can cut the amount of pepper in half.

Add in the pork and cook for 4 to 5 minutes until the pork is fully cooked.

Now stir in the soy sauce, sugar, wine, fish sauce and white pepper. Cook for one minute and then remove from the heat. Stir in a large handful of fresh Thai basil. If you can’t find Thai basil, regular basil will do just fine.

Serve it over some jasmine rice and crispy fried eggs and you’ll have a tasty meal that you can put together in less than 30 minutes. Perfect for a week-night dinner.

Check out another one of my favorite Thai dish - Thai Spicy Fried Chicken