Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles)

Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles)

Marion’s Kitchen Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles) INGREDIENT Pad Kee Mao (Drunken Noodles) European Print This

Serves: 2

Nutrition facts: – calories – fat

Ingredients

5 small garlic cloves, roughly chopped

5 birds’ eye chillies, roughly chopped

2 tbsp vegetable oil

200g (7 oz) pork fillet, thinly sliced

1½ tbsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp fish sauce

1 tsp sugar

300g fresh rice noodles*

1 handful Thai holy basil*

Instructions

STEP 1

Use a mortar and pestle to pound the garlic and chillies to a rough paste.

STEP 2

Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over high heat. Add the garlic chilli paste and stir-fry for 30 seconds. Add the pork and stir-fry until almost cooked. Then add the oyster sauce, fish sauce and sugar. Stir-fry for another minute.

STEP 3

Add the rice noodles and stir-fry for another half a minute. Then toss through the holy basil. Remove from heat and serve.

*NOTES:

You can use Thai basil or regular Italian as a substitute for the Thai holy basil
Cooked spaghetti, dried rice noodles or cooked egg noodles can be used here too.