Title: Thai Pork with Basil
Categories: Main dish, Pork, Thai
Yield: 4 Servings
1 lb Pork tenderloin, trimmed of
-all fat and sinew
1 bn Basil (2 cups leaves)
-(Theirs has minty clove
-flavour)
4 Scallions
3 tb Peanut oil
2 Cloves garlic
2 3 hot red or green chiles,
-thinly sliced
2 ts Fish sauce
2 ts Soy sauce
1 ts Sugar
1/4 c Chicken stock or water
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.
