THAI BEEF, VEGETABLES & BASIL STIR FRY

By tulawdog

Ingredients

• Vegetable oil
• 500 g (1 pound) of beef, thinly sliced or presliced stir fry beef you can buy from the supermarket
• 3 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
• 2- 3 bird’s eye chilli, thinly sliced (this amount is fairly spicy)
• 1 packet of baby sweet corns (about 117g/0.2 pound), sliced diagonally
• 1 bunch of broccolini (about 120g/0.3 pound), cut into 3 sections
• A small pinch of salt
• 2 tbsps fish sauce – to taste
• 1.5 tbsps kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) – to taste (see here for the homemade version)
• Freshly grinded black pepper (about 5 to 6 rounds)
• A handful of fresh basil

Preparation

Step 1

Heat oil in a pan, brown the beef in batches (for me was in 3 batches) to 80% cooked and set aside on a plate. In the same pan, add garlic, bird’s eye chilli and baby sweet corns and saute over low heat until garlic becomes slightly light brown and aromatic and the baby sweet corns are slightly soften. Then add broccolini with a pinch of salt and saute until they are slightly wilted. Return the beef to the pan and stir in fish sauce, kecap manis and the black pepper. Toss to combine all the ingredients. Taste the beef and sauce. Add more fish sauce/kecap manis to achieve your desired taste. Turn off the heat, stir in basil leaves and add more pepper if you like. Serve immediately with rice.