Pad kra pao...

Ingredients: shallots 2, red chili peppers 2, garlic cloves 3 to 4, fish sauce 1 tbsp, light soy sauce 1 tbsp,  a little sugar 1 tsp, minced meat (pork or beef) 250 gr., holy basil (or bai kaphrao), bird's eye chilies 10, sunflower oil 2 tbsp

  

Chop the shallots and chili peppers finely. Heat a frying pan, add the oil. Fry the shallots and chilies for 1 to 2 minutes. add the smashed garlic cloves , fry for 1 more minute. Now add the minced meat and fry while breaking it up into small parts with a fork or spoon. When almost ready add the fish sauce, sugar and soy sauce. mix well, add the chopped basil and turn off the heat. Serve with steamed rice and the sliced bird's eye chillies (if you like it hot).
Pad Kra Pao chicken; use little strips of chicken instead of minced meat.
You can make a vegetarian pad Kra Pao using soy meat.

Beef, lime & peppers

Ingredients; 2 banana peppers, 2 cherry bomb peppers, 1 red sweet pepper, bean sprouts 100gr, steak 150 gr, fresh ginger 1 cm, fish sauce 1 tbsp, oyster sauce 1 tbsp, sesame oil, 1 garlic clove, sunflower oil 4 tbsp, 2 limes, water, sugar 1 tbsp, potato starch 1 tsp.

Wash the lime. Keep zest from half a lime. Peel the other lime and slice into thin parts.  Bring the juice of 1 lime, 3tbsp of water and 1 tbsp of sugar to the boil. Add 1 tsp potato starch to 1 tbsp of water and mix well. Add to the boiling lime juice and stir. Turn down the heat and add the lime slices. set aside.

Bring water to the boil in a cooking pot. Turn off the fire and add the bean sprouts. leave for a couple of minutes and drain. Set aside.
Cut the beef into thin slices (About 5 mm). Heat a wok add 2 tbsp of oil and fry the beef. Just half a minute on each side, on high heat. Set the beef aside.  Add a little more oil to the wok. Fry the sliced peppers for 1 to 2 min. Add the diced sweet pepper and ginger. Fry for 3 more minutes.
Add fish sauce, oyster sauce and chopped garlic.Stir fry for a couple of minutes.
Now add the bean sprouts and the beef (juice and all). Heat, then add the lime sauce and lime parts, stir well. Add a few drops of sesame oil and serve.

Beef teriyaki fusion style!

Ingredients; big mushrooms 8, spring onions 8, potatoes 6, rump-steak 4 (100 gr each), salt, dark soy sauce 3 tbsp, mirin 3 tbsp, rice wine 3 tbsp, teriyaki sauce 1 tbsp, garlic 2 cloves, fresh ginger 2 cm, sunflower oil 4 tbsp

Boil the potatoes in salted water until done.
Mix the soy sauce, mirin, rice wine and teriyaki sauce in a cup. Add sliced ginger and finely cut garlic.
Make a cross like incision on top of the mushrooms. chop the spring onions in to 5 cm pieces. Cut the boiled potatoes in quarters.
Heat a wok and add 2 tbsp of oil. Add the mushrooms and fry for about 5 minutes. Stir constantly and add a splash of water if necessary. Put the mushrooms in a bowl. Fry the spring onion for 1 min., and put them in the bowl. Fry the potatoes for 2 to 3 minutes and add them to the bowl.
Make sure the wok is very hot, and add 2 tbsp oil. Fry the rump-steak 1 min. each side. Fry them one at the time. Put aside. Add the bowl of vegetables to the wok, add the sauce mixture. Once it is cooking add the steak. Cook for to more minutes.
If the sauce is to thin for your liking; mix a tsp of potato flower with 2 tbsp of water. Add to the cooking food while mixing well for 1 minute.

Recipes: Beef and mushroom

Ingredients: dark soy sauce 3 tbsp, mirin 2 tbsp, sake 1 tbsp, teriyaki sauce 1 tbsp, ginger 1,5 cm, garlic 1 clove, palm-sugar 2 tsp, lemon juice 2 tbsp, sesame seeds 2 tbsp, 4 chili peppers, 1 onion, 8 big mushrooms, sunflower oil, beef 250 gr (steak)

 

Mix soy sauce, mirin, sake and teriyaki sauce in a bowl. Add the finely chopped ginger and garlic and mix well. Slice the chili peppers and onion. Dissolve the sugar in a little water. Add oil to a hot frying wok and fry the chili peppers for a minute. Set a side. Fry the onions for about 5 to 6 minutes and set a side. Add some more oil in de wok and fry the whole mushrooms. Once they start coloring add a little water. Continue until they are soft and set a side. Cut up the beef in small strips and fry them for a minute on each side. Set a side.

Pour the sugar mixture in the wok. When it cooks add the lemon juice. After a minute add the soy mixture. Cook on a high temperature for 2 to 3 minutes add onions and mushrooms cook for 1 minute more and add the Beef.

Dress a plate with the beef and vegetables, and add some chili and roasted sesame seats. Serve with rice.