Thai Pork With Basil

Recipe Ingredients

1 lb	454g / 16oz	Pork tenderloin - trimmed of all fat; and sinew
1		Thai basil - (2 cups leaves)
4		Scallions
3 tablespoons	45ml	Peanut oil
2		Garlic
2		Hot red or green chiles - ¥thinly sliced
2 teaspoons	10ml	Fish sauce
2 teaspoons	10ml	Soy sauce
1 teaspoon	5ml	Sugar
1/4 cup	59ml	Chicken stock or water

Recipe Instructions

Thinly slice the pork across the grain. Wash, dry and stem the basil. Mince the white part of the scallion. Cut the green part into 1 inch pieces.

Heat the wok over a high flame. Swirl in the oil and heat almost to smoking.

Add the garlic, chilies and white part of scallions and cook for 10 seconds.

Add the pork and stir fry for 1 minute.

Add the fish sauce, soy sauce, sugar, stock and green part of scallions and bring mixture to a boil. Stir in the basil and cook for 20 seconds or until the leaves are wilted and the pork is cooked. The dish is supposed to be soupy. Serve at once with rice or noodles.

Fragrant dish - one of the glories of Thai street food.

Source:
the California Culinary Academy

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