8/23/2010

Stir-fried seafood and basil









Ingredients :
1. Holy basil
2. Garlic smashed
3. Prawn and squid
4. Soy sauce
5. Vegetable oil
6. Oyster sauce
7. Sugar
8. Carrot
9. Thai chili, minced (for spicy taste)
10. Long green bean

Directions :
1. Mince garlic and chili together. Clean and pick kra-prao leaves (holy basil) from their stem. It may appear like a lot of leaves, but the leaves will shrink when cooked and this dish's flavor comes from the leaves.

2. Fry the garlic and chili pepper in oil over high heat. When garlic starts to turn brown, drop prawn and squid in and carrot, long green bean chopped. Stir constantly. The juice will start to come out. Keep stirring until all the juice is gone. It might take a couple of minutes.

3. Add sugar, soy sauce and oyster sauce. Then add Thai basil. Quickly turn it over a few times to mix the leaves with the seafood and other vegetables then remove from the fire and put it in the serving plate or dishes. Serve hot with rice. Normally in Thailand, pad kra prao is served with a small bowl of chili pepper in fish sauce or fried egg.(sunny-side up egg).

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