Name: Wok-fried basil and chilli chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Thai
Ingredients: 2 tbsp fish sauce; 2 tbsp finely chopped palm sugar; salt; 3 tbsp oil (vegetable or peanut); 4 hot red chillies, deseeded and roughly chopped; 4 small skinned free-range chicken breasts, chopped; 4 coriander roots, scrubbed (optional); 3 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled; 4 fat cloves garlic; big handful of Thai basil leaves; 3 mild red chillies, deseeded and thickly shredded

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food and Travels

By Alastair Hendy

Published 2004

About

A Bangkok easy. You can’t go wrong. Very tasty.

Ingredients

4 small skinned free-range chicken breasts, chopped
3 cm piece fresh root ginger, peeled
4 hot

Method

Briefly pulse the chicken breasts in a processer until coarse-minced but not mushed. Pound the ginger, chillies, garlic and coriander roots (if using) with a touch of salt to make a paste, then stir-fry in the oil in a wok for about a minute until it looks golden. Tip in the chicken and toss through and stir-fry until it browns, then stir in the sugar, and fry until things look sticky. Toss thr

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