Chicken with Lemon Grass

Name: Chicken with Lemon Grass
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Vietnam
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons finely chopped garlic; 2 tablespoons fish sauce; 1 blade of lemon grass, finely chopped; 3 tablespoons white sugar; 2 tablespoons groundnut oil; 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; slivers of deseeded red chilli pepper; 900g/2lb free-range chicken breast fillets, skinned and cubed

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Best of Floyd

By Keith Floyd

Published 1995

About

This is another refreshing, tangy dish from Vietnam. Just one word of warning: take care not to burn the sugar.

Ingredients

900g/2lb free-range chicken breast fillets, skinned and cubed
2 tablespoons fis

Vietnam
Main course
Spicy
Gluten-free

Method

Marinate the chicken in the fish sauce, garlic, 1 tablespoon of the sugar, the lemon grass and pepper for 30 minutes.

Heat the oil in a large, lidded pan and sauté the chicken until golden. Lower the heat, cover and simmer for about 20 minutes until the chicken is tender. Keep hot.