Pad Krapow

Ingredients

• 400g chicken mince, or 300g crumbled tofu
• 2 cups holy basil or normal basil
• 8 garlic cloves
• 4 green chillies
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp oyster or dark soy sauce
• 1 tsp sugar
• 2 eggs
• Rice for 2
• 3 tbsp oil

Method

1. Pound the garlic and chillies together coarsely. A blender makes it watery.
2. Screaming hot pan. Garlic-chilli for 20 seconds.
3. Mince in, break it up, fry hard 5 minutes until it browns and catches slightly.
4. Soy sauces and sugar, toss 1 minute.
5. Heat off, then a huge handful of basil folded through — it should wilt, not cook.
6. Fry the eggs in very hot oil till the edges are crisp and lacy. Rice, mince, egg on top.