Dinner · 20 min · Amounts not specified
Pad krapow pork
Holy basil would be right; regular basil is Tuesday. Pork, a lot of garlic and chili, fish sauce. Fried egg on top. It should be spicy enough to need rice.
The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min
easyWhy tonight. Holy basil would be right; regular basil is Tuesday. Pork, a lot of garlic and chili, fish sauce. Fried egg on top. It should be spicy enough to need rice.
What it needs
Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.
- pork
- garlic
- chili flakes
- fish sauce
- basil
Good if you have them, fine if you do not: eggs.
Method
- Hottest pan. Pork, a lot of garlic and chili, fish sauce.
- Basil off the heat so it stays green. Fried egg on top.
- Rice. It should be spicy enough to need it. Don't make a basil pasta.
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What the method is trying to make happen
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The technique underneath this
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Published minimums for what is in this
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- Eggs and custardEggs Part 1 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishThe foundations — how pan heat and timing decide whether a scramble is custard or rubber.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardEggs Part 2 | Basics with BabishBinging with BabishOmelets and poaching, with the failure modes shown rather than described.Link checked 2026-09-08
- Eggs and custardScrambled Egg Omelet - Food WishesFood WishesScramble against omelet on the same stove, which makes the heat-and-stirring tradeoff visible.Link checked 2026-09-08
Why each of these is on the list
What the ingredients are actually doing
- pork
- The forgiving meat. Shoulder takes hours and rewards them, chops take minutes and punish you for one too many, and the fat is the flavor in both cases.
- garlic
- Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
- chili flakes
- Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
- fish sauce
- Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.
- basil
- Perfume rather than flavor, and heat destroys it.
Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.
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Next
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