Pad Prik Pow Recipes

HOY LAI PAD NAM PRIK POW (CLAMS WITH CHILI PASTE AND BASIL)

Steps:

• Heat a large heavy-bottomed pan or wok over high heat; add the oil and wait 1 minute more. Mix garlic into the hot oil and cook until it just turns golden brown, about 1 minute. Add clams and chile paste; stir until clams are coated.
• Stir fish sauce, chiles, and sugar into clams; cook and stir until the clams have opened, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Mix basil into clam mixture and cook until wilted, about 1 minute.

PORK & HOLY BASIL STIR-FRY (PAD KRA PAO)

Steps:

• In a wok over medium high heat, add the oil, shallots and garlic, and fry for 3 minutes. Add the chilies and cook for another minute. Crank up the heat to high, and add the ground pork, breaking it up into small bits and allowing it to crisp up.
• Add the sugar, fish sauce, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, and oyster sauce. Stir-fry for another minute and deglaze the pan with the broth or water. Because your pan is over high heat, the liquid should cook off very quickly. Add the basil, and stir-fry until wilted. Serve over rice.

PAD PRIEW WANT (SWEET AND SOUR PORK THAI STYLE)

Steps:

• Slice the pork into scallops, one and a half by an eighth inch thick. Set aside. In a small bowl, combine the quarter cup of water, nam pla, sugar and ketchup. Set aside. In another small bowl, mix together the tapioca starch with two and a half tablespoons of water. Reserve.
• Heat the wok over high heat for 30 seconds. Add the peanut oil and, when a wisp of white smoke appears, add the garlic. When the garlic turns light brown, add the pork. Spread in a thin layer and cook for about one minute. Turn over and cook until the pink color vanishes, about one minute more. Add the onions and tomatoes and stir for one minute. Add the vinegar and mix all the ingredients well.
• Pour the nam pla mixture into the wok and stir well to combine all the ingredients. Add the scallions, peppers, chilies and cucumbers, and mix thoroughly. Stir the tapioca starch mixture and add it to the wok. Stir continuously, combining the ingredients, until the sauce bubbles.
• Turn off the heat. Transfer to a heated dish and serve with plain cooked rice.