Thai Basil Beef
Stir-fried beef with long beans, basil, peas and chilli
This is a quick stir fry which goes really well with steamed rice. I love to whip this up when I’m in a hurry. To balance the meat and for more colour, I added assorted peas & long beans. You can make this dish as spicy as you like by adjusting the amount of chilli padi. As beef cooks really fast, and overcooking beef will cause it to be tough, I just stir fry the beef briefly. If you don’t consume beef, you can also use minced chicken or pork, but you need to stir fry the meat longer than beef as they take longer to cook.
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Ingredients
(serves 2)
- 120g minced beef
- 1 tbsp cooking oil
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
- 2 long beans, ends trimmed and sliced to even lengths (about 5cm/2 inches)
- 1 chilli padi (bird’s eye chilli), finely sliced (adjust or omit to your liking)
- 1/2 tsp dark soy sauce
- 1 tsp thai fish sauce
- 50ml water
- 1 tbsp assorted peas
- a few sweet basil leaves, torn roughlyDirections
1. Heat oil, add garlic and chilli, fry garlic till lightly brown and fragrant.
2. Add long beans and stir fry for about 2 minutes. Then add beef and stir fry for a few seconds. Whenever you’re stir frying the beef, continuously use your spatula to break the minced beef to smaller pieces.
3. Mix soy sauce, fish sauce and water in a cup and then pour the solution to the meat. Add peas and continue to stir fry for a minute or until the beef is evenly coated in the dark sauce mixture and cooked.
4. Add basil leaves and turn off the flame when the leaves are just withered and you can smell the aroma of the basil. Served with steamed rice.
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Love it! Oh…I really miss long beans here. If there is any, they are very expensive.
Can I come to your house? hahaha … I think I will gain weight by just looking at your delicious mouthwatering food pictures :D
Wish you will be happily busy. Shall I expect to read your first recipe today, Oct 11? I was there already : ).
Sorry for the confusion. The recipes will be published this week (sometime on Wed) but not the first day of the week. I’ll post an update when the recipes are up :)
Many thanks : )
I like quick stir-fries….not to mention one like this…looking delish!
I love Thai basil stir-fry. Just had some over the weekend. An easy fulfilling dish!
Like that you added the long beans and peas. Makes a meal plate with rice cos there are meat and veggies in it. :)
this is a simple yet delicious dish, yum.
This basil beef looks amazing! I learn a lot about Asian food from you! Thanks for sharing this.
Veg+meat+rice=complete meal. great! nice and simple
This looks absolutely delicious! Don’t think I’ve ever had a stir-fry with ground beef – I like it!
This dish has got lots of colours and flavours. I can have a big bowl of rice.
yummy looking stir-fry! I can have lots of rice with this alone hehe
Love everything about this dish except the peas:-)
This is one fine dish but too bad I don’t eat beef, perhaps can be replaced with chicken’s meats =D
I really enjoy long beans, so this looks like an easy flavorful dish to whip up.
Lovely dish! I can only get long beans at Chinese supermarket.. definitely need to try making this yummy dish!
For sure, I love this!
this is one of my regualr dish when eating out at thai restaurants, along with my tom yum koong! yummy!! if you buy thai basil leaves with stalks, u can actually plan the stalks after using all the leaves. water & leave at shaded spot till it grows roots and new leaves and put out to sun once stable. u can get free leaves for yr next cooking :)
I’ve been planting both sweet basil and Thai basil. But most of them died! even my kind neighbour helped me plant some but once she handed over to me, it withers after some time. I have no green fingers!!
A great suggestion to use chicken instead!
normally, i order something like this for lunch…but i should really try making my own heheh
Absolutely yummy and I do so like this Thai dish. It’s looks as good as the dishes from a Thai restaurant.
My kind of meal!!! Love the addition of basil leaves and of course the colours that go with it!
May I know which brand of thai fish sauce do you use? Where do you buy it?
I bought Knife Brand’s before, and it just doesn’t taste nice.
Looks great! Maybe you can try using holy basil instead of sweet basil. From what I’ve researched, holy basil is the one that is used for authentic thai versions and gives a distinctive flavor that sweet basil can’t beat!
Unfortunately i haven’t tried yet, not easy to find holy basil in UK!
Thanks wiffy what a terrific recipe! And I was just wondering what to do with my leftover basil and frozen mixed veggies. I’m going to make this tonight!
Hi,
Been looking through your blog for recipe as I’m a noob for cooking. Can I check with you, where can I buy parsley, basil & the instant cereal prawn mix? Would like to try some dishes with these ingredients. Also, may i ask what is pasta water?
Your help will be greatly appreciated. :)