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

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Read on for a much shorter version of the Thai Basil Chicken (Gai Pad Krapow) recipe instructions, this time with visual aids!

I use dried red chillies instead of fresh chillies as I love the smokiness it gives to the final dish.

Serve this with steamed Thai jasmine rice.

You can have 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 achieve it.

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

You need 400 g of Beef mince (or chicken or pork).
Prepare 2 Tbsp of Oil.
Prepare 2 Tbsp of Garlic, minced.
It’s 10 g of Large Dried Chillies (mild), roughly pounded.
It’s 2-4 of Small Dried Chillies (hot), roughly pounded.
Prepare 1 Tbsp of Oyster Sauce.
You need 1 Tbsp of Thai Seasoning Sauce.
Prepare 1 Tbsp of Fish Sasuce.
Prepare 1 Tbsp of Sweet Soy Sauce (or Kecap Manis).
It’s 1 tsp of Light Soy Sauce.
Prepare 1 handful of Basil or Thai Holy Basil.
Prepare of Optional Fried Egg:.
Prepare 2 of Eggs.
You need of Oil for frying.
It’s of Spicy Fish Sauce (Nam Pla Prik).
You need 3 of Red Chillies, cut into thin slices.
You need 2 Tbsp of Fish Sauce.

Heat large skillet over high heat.

Stir in shallots, garlic, and sliced chilies.

The main ingredient, holy basil or "Bai Ga Prao" is sometimes not easy to find in Western countries.

However, due to it's medicinal properties it gets more and more widely available.

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

Heat oil in a pan over medium heat. Add garlic + large dried chillies + small dried chillies. Fry until fragrant.
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 its dry-ish..

Add basil leaves. Turn off heat. Stir to mix..
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 its crispy..
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..

Mix together fresh chillies + fish sauce.

Serve everything together with steamed rice..

It's possible to replace it with Thai sweet basil / purple basil but it's just not the real thing.

The flower is in appearance closer to the European.

Get the widest dried rice noodles you can find at your grocery store.

Here in Australian supermarkets, the widest I can find is labelled "Pad Thai", though ironically, it's actually too wide for Pad Thai!

There are actually two types of Thai Basil - regular Thai Basil and Thai Holy Basil.