Quick and easy Recipe

One of my favourite Thai food and a good quick and affordable hearty meal. It is more common to use ground pork, but you can use ground beef or chicken if you can’t consume pork.

Ingredients:

• 6 birds eye chili
• 6 to 10 garlic
• Pork minced (or beef if you can’t consume pork)
• Oyster sauce, dark soy sauce & fish sauce
• Sugar
• Ajinamoto/ MSG
• Thai basil leaves
• Chopped snake beans (optional)

How to cook Pad Kra Pao:

1. Pound the garlic and birds eye chili in your granite/ stone spice crusher.
2. Heat about 1 cm of vegetable oil in a small non-stick pan/ wok over medium high heat. Saute the pounded chili and garlic in the pan until the garlic starts to turn golden.
3. Add the minced pork (or beef) and toss until they’re no longer in big clumps.
4. Add your chopped snake beans (optional), then some dark soy sauce, oyster sauce and a dash of fish sauce before sprinkling MSG or Ajinamoto and a dash of sugar.
5. When it’s almost done, add Thai basil leave and fry all miced pork/ beef for another 3 minutes.

Serve the minced pork on top of a bowl of white rice and top it with a fried egg. It’s a simple meal perfect for a gentle night with friends and family.