My version of Thai Basil Beef (Pad Ka Prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs
My version of Thai Basil Beef (Pad Ka Prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, my version of thai basil beef (pad ka prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Thai basil beef (aka pad graw prow). The dish I order almost every time I set foot in a Thai restaurant, and one of my favorite things to cook at home. While we've posted a recipe for Thai Basil Chicken in the past, this beef version has a more intense flavor that comes from the darker, richer sauce used.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook my version of thai basil beef (pad ka prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs using 17 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My version of Thai Basil Beef (Pad Ka Prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs:
  1. Take 400 g Beef mince (or chicken or pork)
  2. Take 2 Tbsp Oil
  3. Make ready 2 Tbsp Garlic, minced
  4. Get 10 g Large Dried Chillies (mild), roughly pounded
  5. Get 2-4 Small Dried Chillies (hot), roughly pounded
  6. Make ready 1 Tbsp Oyster Sauce
  7. Take 1 Tbsp Thai Seasoning Sauce
  8. Take 1 Tbsp Fish Sasuce
  9. Get 1 Tbsp Sweet Soy Sauce (or Kecap Manis)
  10. Take 1 tsp Light Soy Sauce
  11. Get 1 handful Basil or Thai Holy Basil
  12. Get Optional Fried Egg:
  13. Take 2 Eggs
  14. Take Oil for frying
  15. Take Spicy Fish Sauce (Nam Pla Prik)
  16. Make ready 3 Red Chillies, cut into thin slices
  17. Take 2 Tbsp Fish Sauce

For a truly classic way to serve this dish, pour it over rice and top with a fried egg! When my husband and I lived in St. Louis, there was a Thai food restaurant that we frequented that was unlike any other; I'm salivating 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. My version of this classic Thai dish has spectacular taste even with regular basil instead of Thai or holy basil.

Steps to make My version of Thai Basil Beef (Pad Ka Prao) with dried chillies, topped with fried eggs:
  1. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. - Add garlic + large dried chillies + small dried chillies. - Fry until fragrant
  2. Add beef mince, break it up the lumps. - - When the beef is almost cooked through, season with oyster sauce + Thai seasoning sauce + sugar + sweet soy sauce + soy sauce. - - Keep frying over medium heat until it's dry-ish.
  3. Add basil leaves. Turn off heat. Stir to mix.
  4. In a small pan or pot, add oil up to about 1 cm height. - Heat over high heat until oil is hot. - Add one egg. - Let the egg white cook until it's crispy.
  5. When the egg white is crispy enough, gently scoop up the hot oil over the top of the egg to evenly cook the egg whites, and creates a thin coating over the egg yolk. - - Remove from pan. - - Repeat with the second egg.
  6. Mix together fresh chillies + fish sauce. - - Serve everything together with steamed rice.

The sauce actually acts like a glaze as the chicken mixture cooks over high heat. The recipe works best if you chop or grind your own chicken and have all ingredients prepped before you start. Pad Kra Pao means stir-fry basil, thus making it the main ingredient in this classic dish from Thailand. The combination of Thai basil, spicy chillies, pungent fish sauce and chicken make this dish amazingly delicious and appetizing. Serve with hot rice topped with a fried egg.

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