Stir-fried beef with basil leaves

Name: Stir-fried beef with basil leaves
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: ½ teaspoon Demerara or palm sugar; ½ teaspoon Demerara or palm sugar; 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 2 tablespoons oyster sauce; vegetable oil, for frying; 2 handfuls of fresh basil leaves; 1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce (nam pla); 4 tablespoons chicken stock; 500 g/1 lb 2 oz fillet steak, thinly sliced; 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 red onion, peeled and cut into thin wedges; 3 dried bird’s eye chillies, crushed

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Keith Floyd's Thai Food

By Keith Floyd

Published 2006

About

Ingredients

4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
500 g/1 lb 2 oz

Asia
Thailand
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Mix all the ingredients for the sauce in a small bowl and put to one side.
Heat some oil in a wok or heavy-based frying pan and stir-fry half the garlic until just turning golden.
Increase the heat, add half the beef and half the chillies and stir-fry for 2–3 minutes until the beef is cooked. Using a slotted spoon, remove the garlic, beef and chillies an