Thai food

stir-fried basil

Stir-fried basil is one of the most popular Thai single dishes. It's a street food that is common in Thailand. It is sometimes called a desperation menu because when you order food and don't know what to eat, you usually order stir-fried basil. It can be seen that "even though stir-fried basil is called a desperation dish, but stir-fried basil is still a fast food that has all the flavours. Pleasing to people of all classes and has complete nutritional value."

As for the ingredients for making stir-fried basil, it consists of meat, chili, garlic, basil leaves. Some restaurants also add yardlong beans, baby corn, and onions. And the meat used to make stir-fried basil includes chicken, pork, beef, shrimp, squid, or even fish, mussels, crab meat, etc., all of which can be used to make stir-fried basil dishes. TasteAtlas, a world-class food website, ranks "Stir-fried basil" as number one in "Best Stir-fries" in the World or the best stir-fry dish in the world in 2023.