Quick Chicken Thai Basil Stir-fry
April 19, 2017
Easter long weekend just whoosh passed...
thats it, no more long weekend for us, we'll be facing holiday drought until December!
I planned to have a fruitful long weekend, to tidy up my 404 errors, tidy up my photos (to further compressed as suggested by Google!) but none of that happened.
By the way, do tell me if the photos in this Quick Chicken Thai Basil Stir-fry post look dull and pixelated. I am not happy with the result but I am experimenting anyway.
Appreciate your feedback :D
Due the warm-ish weather, my thai basil plants are doing exceptionally well. Every shoots starts to flower almost immediately.
Not wanting to waste the cuttings, a simple quick chicken thai basil stir fry with a cut up chillies sound like a complete and delicious dinner to me :D.
This Chicken Thai Basil Stir-fry is really a quick and easy meal to cook on busy mid-week.
What I like about this chicken thai basil stir fry, is the crispy deep fried thai basil leaves.
The flavour is just awesome!
Plus using the same oil to cook the chicken pieces, enhances the thai basil flavour on to the chicken.
If you have thai basils in abundance, gives this dish a try, with a little tweak here and there to your liking :P.
yield: 4-6 servings
Quick Chicken Thai Basil Stir-fry
Chicken and Thai basil stir-fry is flavourful with crispy deep fried Thai basil leaves.
INGREDIENTS:
- 800g chicken thighs cut into bite size
- 2-3 red chilli - sliced
- 8 g galangal root - julienne
- 2 tablespoon fish sauce
- 2 teaspoon chopped palm sugar
- handful Thai basil leaves - washed and pat dry
- 2 teaspoon of corn flour
- 2 tablespoon water
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Heat wok until very hot.
- Add 1/4 cup of cooking oil
- Add thai basil leaves and fry until wilt and crispy. Scoop and set aside.
- Leaving about 1 tablespoon in the hot wok, add in chicken.
- Stir for a few minutes, then add chilli, galangal, fish sauce and sugar.
- Stir for another 5 minutes or until the chicken pieces are cooked through
- Mix the corn flour in water, add to the wok. Cook for further 2 minutes to thicken the sauce.
- Remove from heat and sprinkle the deep fried Thai basil leaves
- Serve immediately with steam jasmine rice
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Quick, healthy and delicious...the chicken looks really tender, Lisa.
ReplyDeleteThank you Angie :D
DeleteI can imagine how tasty it is ! Happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteKristy
Easy and tasty ;P
DeleteHi this certainly is a an easy and quick stirfry..and I loveee any dish
ReplyDeletewith Thai Basil
However the pictures do look a bit washed out though very clear..maybe the
chicken pieces look uncooked and too white contrasting with the greens.
My 2 cents worth..hope you don't mind
Thanks for sharing as always
Mrs Singh, Malaysia
I thank you for your input, Mrs Singh.
DeleteI was working on the photos, trying to comply with Google’s new guidelines.
I wasn’t happy with the results :(