Nat's Thai chicken basil
- Ready In:
- 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts (cut into chunks)
- 1 Spanish onion (sliced)
- 1 green pepper (sliced)
- 1 red pepper (sliced)
- 236.59 ml broccoli (just the tops)
- 354.88 ml basil
- 1 red chile (seeded)
- 3 clove garlic
- 44.37 ml Thai fish sauce
- 29.58 ml soya sauce
- 9.85 ml sugar
- 1 lime (juice of)
directions
- In a mortar and pestle add: red chilli, garlic, 1 cup of basil and the sugar.
- Pound until you get a nice smooth paste.
- Add fish sauce, soya and lime juice.
- Stir.
- Taste and adjust.
- I like mine kind of sweet with lots of Basil flavour.
- Heat wok, add chicken.
- Stir fry on high.
- Add broccoli and toss for a minute.
- Add onion and peppers, toss for about 2 minutes.
- Add sauce from mortar and pestle.
- (still high heat) toss 1 minute.
- Add remaining 1/2 cup of basil (roughly chopped) until barely wilted.
- Serve with rice.
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Reviews
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I've made this so many times I can't believe I've never rated it. My whole family loves this, this last time I didn't have any chili peppers so I used a heaping 1/4 tsp of chili paste and it still came out great, it was missing a little bite. I have to reduce the fish sauce to 2 tbs but maybe the brand I bought is just really fishy? so easy and close to takeout, thanks for sharing.
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Although I used this recipe as a base and made a bunch of changes, it is still a great base! I have to have thai curry sauces around because we live rurally and have a hard time finding asian ingredients. I didn't use oinions, but I will next time. I will probably use thighs next time so it is more moist and flavorful. I can't use chili because of my kids, but I did add some yellow curry paste to the mortar which has a kick. I also added some chopped cilantro at the end for the extra flavor. I can't help myself, I have to add coconut milk to most of my thai dishes. I know they don't ALL have coconut milk, but it just added another dimension for me. I would like to have more sauce for the rice, so I will play around with that a little. Overall, excellent. Thank you so much for posting! We can't afford to eat out much anymore, so I appreciate a good recipe that can be made at home!
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This was really good. I'm somewhat of a thai food snob and I like to mess around with my own creations, and this is an awesome recipe. Everyone really liked it. I changed a few things. I made it vegetarian with carrots, broccoli, squash, celery, bell peppers, a few pieces of tomato, and green onions. I pretty much stuck to the sauce - I used thai basil, 4 garlic cloves, 3tbsp fish, 3 tbsp soy sauce, 1 thai chilli pepper (next time I'd use 2 or 3 for more spice) with the sugar and I processed this in a food processor and added it at the end of the veggies cooking. I added some chili lime peanuts to it at the end (about a cup) plus another handful of basil. I put it over japanese soba noodles and it turned out awesome!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Nat Da Brat
Ottawa (Go Bruins Go!!!), 0
<p>My husband and I are mostly retired but we love renovations so we tend to buy, fix and sell a lot :) We love to travel and our favorite and yearly destinations are Negril, Jamaica and Isla Mujeres Mexico.</p>