Thai Ground Beef Stir Fry

This is a very simple and easy recipe for a quick dish.  A friend of mine, Anita, was gracious enough to share this recipe with me.  This recipe came from a Thai cooking class that she took years ago.  She told me the ingredients and I adjusted the amount according to my taste as well as adding onion and sweet soy sauce into the ingredients.  This dish tastes better the next day after the ingredients got absorbed into the meat, in my opinion.  If so, you may want to add the green bell pepper and Thai chili when you are ready to eat so they don't get soggy.  You can serve this dish with steamed rice or dry cooked noodle seasoned with some oil so the noodle does not get sticky and the oil gives some fragrant to the noodle.  I usually use fried shallot oil.

Garlic Basil Sauce for Fish

Ingredients:

• Fish - either fried or baked first, medium size
• Olive oil - liberal amount, enough for sauce like
• Basil - 3 to 4 branches of basil leaves only
• Garlic - 1 big whole clove, finely chopped
• Honey - 2 teaspoons
• Soy sauce - 2 teaspoons
• Garlic chili sauce - 2 teaspoons
• Lemon/lime - 1/2 of its juice

Directions:

1. Stir fry liberal amount of olive oil and garlic over medium high heat until the garlic starts to cook/brownish
2. Add basil leaves and honey (to taste if preferred), switch heat to medium and continue to stir fry for a bit longer (5 minutes or so)
3. After basil softens, add garlic chili sauce & lemon/lime juice
4. Pour over the fish (fried or baked)

Recipe courtesy of Stephen Chew