Thai Basil Beef. Thai Basil Beef is a super easy one-skillet meal loaded with tender, juicy beef and absolutely bursting with flavor! This easy dinner recipe is perfect for a healthy weeknight meal the whole family will love. Thai Basil Beef (Pad Gra Prow) Thai Basil Beef, or Pad Gra Prow, is an easy, delicious dish of stir-fried beef and thai basil.
I was excited to develop this recipe at home because it's made with ground beef, which I usually have on hand, making it practical and inexpensive for a weeknight dinner at our house. Heat wok with oil, add garlic and chiles. Add remaining sauce: oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and white pepper. You can have Thai Basil Beef using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Thai Basil Beef
- You need 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil.
- You need 1 of onion sliced.
- You need 6 of gloves garlic chopped.
- It's 1 inch of ginger minced.
- You need 1 of red pepper sliced.
- You need 1 pound of lean ground beef.
- Prepare 1 cup of Thai basil leaves chopped.
- You need 3 of scallions chopped.
- It's of Ingredients for sauce.
- It's 2 teaspoons of brown sugar.
- You need 2 tablespoons of fish sauce.
- Prepare 6 tablespoons of soy sauce.
- Prepare 3 tablespoons of oyster sauce.
- You need 1/2 cup of water.
- You need 1 tablespoon of chili paste (optional).
- It's 1 teaspoon of corn starch.
The king of street food in Thailand is called Phat kaphroa, and it's made with your choice of meet (pork, chicken, beef, or seafood), stir fried with Thai holy basil and garlic, and served with rice and a fried egg. It has MANY names including: Pad Kra Pao, Pad Ka Prao, Pad Ka Pow, Pad Krapow, and Pad gaprao. Transfer to a bowl; set aside. Break up the meat into gravel-size pieces and drain any excess liquid.
Thai Basil Beef step by step
- Mix ingredients for sauce and set aside.
- Add oil to wok or large pan over medium high heat.
- When oil is hot, add garlic, ginger, red pepper, and onion. Stir fry for 4 min.
- Turn stove to high heat and add ground beef. Break beef into small pieces.
- When beef is no longer pink, stir in sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add the basil and stir fry until the basil wilts..
- Top with scallions and enjoy over short grain white rice!.
Stir in the bell pepper and stir-fry for about a minute. Add the reserved sauce to the wok and combine the ingredients. Stir in chicken stock, oyster sauce, fish sauce, and sugar. Basil—using Thai holy basil (if you're lucky enough to find it) makes this spicy beef stir-fry worthy of the name "phat ka-phrao" which means "holy basil stir-fry". If you can't find Thai holy basil (it can be hard to track down) just use sweet basil.