Stir-Fried Chicken with hot basil (Gai Pad ka Prao)
| ½ Cup | Minced chicken (we used thinly sliced beef) |
| 1 | Clove garlic, finely chopped |
| ¼ | white onion |
| 3 | Bird eye chillies (less if you like it less spicy) |
| 7 – 10 | Hot basil leaves |
| 1 | Long beansliced into 1 cm lengths at angle |
| 1 | Baby corn cut at angle in 5mm slices |
| 2 tab | Vegetable oil |
| ¼ Cup | Chicken stock |
| Seasoning | |
| ½ Tab | Soy sauce |
| ½ Tab | Fish sauce |
| 1 Tab | Oyster Sauce |
| 1 Tsp | White sugar |
- Combine garlic and chillies in a mortar and pound to rough paste
- In a hot wok with oil add garlic/chilli paste, cook until ‘fragrant’ (30 seconds max)
- Add meat and cook appropriately
- Add long beans, baby corn, onion and chicken stock. Stir until tender
- Add seasoning and taste, adjust as necessary
- Add basil and take off the heat.
- Serve