Recipe: Appetizing Thai Basil Beef

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Thai Basil Beef. 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. Thai Basil Beef Whenever I'm eating out at a Thai restaurant my go-to dish is usually Thai Basil Beef, (also called Pad Gra Prow on Thai restaurant menus). 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.

Thai Basil Beef 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. Add beef, season with salt and pepper, and cook, breaking up with a. You can cook Thai Basil Beef using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Thai Basil Beef

  1. Prepare of vegetable oil.
  2. You need of onion sliced.
  3. It's of gloves garlic chopped.
  4. Prepare of ginger minced.
  5. It's of red pepper sliced.
  6. Prepare of lean ground beef.
  7. You need of Thai basil leaves chopped.
  8. You need of scallions chopped.
  9. Prepare of Ingredients for sauce.
  10. You need of brown sugar.
  11. You need of fish sauce.
  12. You need of soy sauce.
  13. Prepare of oyster sauce.
  14. You need of water.
  15. It's of chili paste (optional).
  16. It's of corn starch.

Heat wok with oil, add garlic and chiles. Add remaining sauce: oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar, and white pepper. Transfer to a bowl; set aside. Break up the meat into gravel-size pieces and drain any excess liquid.

Thai Basil Beef instructions

  1. Mix ingredients for sauce and set aside.
  2. Add oil to wok or large pan over medium high heat.
  3. When oil is hot, add garlic, ginger, red pepper, and onion. Stir fry for 4 min.
  4. Turn stove to high heat and add ground beef. Break beef into small pieces.
  5. When beef is no longer pink, stir in sauce and cook for 2 minutes.
  6. Add the basil and stir fry until the basil wilts..
  7. 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. 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. You pretty much just cook the beef, shallots, garlic and peppers before seasoning with the perfect balance of salty fish sauce, sweet palm sugar.