Seafood with chilly and Basil

Ingredients :

1. Large Shrimp – 4 tail on peeled an de-veined, washed and pat dry
2. Squid – 2 medium sized cleaned and cut into rings
3. Oil – 1 tbsp
4. Garlic – 4 cloves crushed
5. Ginger – ½ inch Julienned
6. Fish sauce – 1 tsp
7. Oyster Sauce – 1 tsp
8. Soy sauce – 1 tsp
9. Ripe red chillies – 3 crushed
10. Green chillies – 1 sliced
11. Sugar – ½ tsp
12. Chicken stock –  4 tbsp
13. Holy basil leaves – 1/4 cup
14. Vegetable – optional . I used  ½  mix of broccoli,bok choy, red bell pepper,mushroom

NOTE : Its best to make this dish in small batches of 1 or 2 servings at the max. Cook on high heat and quickly else the seafood overcooks and steams and the vegetable loses its crunch. Keep all ingredients ready before you start cooking . The dish will be ready in 5 minutes once cooking starts.

You can use any seafood of your choice - mussels,crab,clams,cubes of boneless fish , Scallops etc.

Method:

In a large frying pan/Wok , Heat the oil on high and add crushed chilly, garlic and ginger and stirfry for 30 seconds.

Add the squid and shrimp and stirfy on high flame for 2 minutes . 

As the pan gets dried out keep adding the sauces  starting with the fish sauce , oyster sauce and soysauce.

Add the vegetables if using and sliced green chilly and fry for a minute .

Add the chicken stock and sugar and mix well. Scrape up the bits stuck to the pan with stock .

The gravy should be thick . Add in the basil leaves and turn the flame off.

Add fish sauce if  salt is less when you taste it.

 Mix well and serve immediately over white rice.