Seafood Recipes - Recipe for Thai Scallops with Fresh Basil

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Thai Scallops with Fresh Basil

Fresh basil is excellent for stir-frying with seafood with poultry. Add a touch of garlic. In Thai cuisine, basil is essential and they have several varieties of basil.

1/2 pound fresh scallops
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
3 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
3 kaffir lime leaves, cut in thin strips (see note below recipe)
1/2 cup mushrooms (preferably straw mushrooms)
1/4 cup shredded bamboo shoots
3 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 to 4 red chile peppers, seeded and chopped (optional)
15 sweet basil leaves
2 cups chopped cabbage (optional)

Method

Rinse scallops and score crosswise. In a wok heat oil, garlic and kaffir lime leaves on high heat until oil bubbles. Add scallops, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, oyster sauce and red chile peppers; stir-fry for 5 minutes, or until scallops are cooked. Mix in basil and serve on a bed of chopped cabbage.

Serves: 2 to 4

A note about kaffir lime leaves: "Thais use a great deal of kaffir lime and its leaves. Grated zest of fresh lime can be used as a substitute. In Thai cooking kaffir lime leaves are used for flavor, like bay leaves. They should be removed from the dish before serving." Keo Sananikone

Reprinted with permission from ©Bangkok Thai Cuisines, Inc. Keo's Thai Cuisine, by Keo Sananikone, published by Ten Speed Press

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