pork and thai basil stir-fry
Ingredients:
- 4 clove garlic
- 2 lime
- baby bok choy
- 2 shallot
- ½ ounce thai basil
- 20 ounce ground pork
- 1.5 teaspoon fish sauce
- ½ teaspoon sriracha
- 4 tablespoon soy sauce
- steamed basmati rice
- 2 teaspoon vegetable oil
- 1.5 teaspoon sugar
- salt
- pepper
Directions:
- Mince garlic, halve limes, cut one lime into wedges
- Trim and discard bottom root ends from bok choy, then thinly slice stalks and leaves crosswise
- Halve, peel, and thinly slice shallots
- Pick basil leaves from stems and roughly chop half
Cook pork
- Heat a large drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. add shallots and cook, tossing, until softened, about 3 minutes.
- Add pork, break up meat into pieces, spread out in pan, and gently press down. cook without stirring until browned on bottom, about 4 minutes.
- Toss in garlic. cook until fragrant, 1 minute more.
Make sauce
- Stir together 1 tbsp water and 1½ tsp sugar in a small bowl.
- Warm in microwave until sugar dissolves, about 30 seconds.
- Stir in a squeeze of lime, 1½ tsp fish sauce, and ½ tsp sriracha. set aside.
Cook bok choy and rice
- Add bok choy and 2 tbsp soy sauce to pan with pork.
- Cook, tossing, until bok choy is tender, about 3 minutes.
- Meanwhile, cook rice.
Finish stir-fry
- Stir chopped basil and a squeeze of lime into pan.
- Season with more lime and soy sauce (to taste).
Plate and serve
- Divide rice between plates and top with stir-fry.
- Scatter remaining basil over.
- Drizzle with sauce and remaining sriracha.
- Serve with lime wedges to the side
Notes:
Nutrition Facts:
- calories 530 kcal
- fat 25 g
- saturated fat 7 g
- carbohydrate 50 g
- sugar 6 g
- dietary fiber 4 g
- protein 30 g
- cholesterol 90 mg
- sodium 890 mg