Thai Chicken With Chilies And Basil Food

THAI BASIL CHILLI CHICKEN | MARION'S KITCHEN

Steps:

• Step 1.Mix the ingredients for the stir-fry sauce. Set aside for later.
• Step 2.Heat the vegetable oil in a wok or large frying pan over high heat. Add the garlic, chillies and onion and stir-fry for 20 seconds. Then add the chicken and immediately spread the chicken out in the pan. Allow to sear for almost a minute, then stir-fry. Repeat until the chicken is just cooked. Add the stir-fry sauce and cook until the sauce is just thickened. Toss through the bok choy and stir-fry for a minute. Then toss through the basil leaves. Serve with steamed rice.

SPICY CHICKEN WITH PEPPERS AND BASIL

Steps:

• Place rice on the stovetop to cook.
• Cut chicken on an angle across the breast into thin strips. Cut strips across into bite size pieces. Set chicken aside. Wash hands and cutting board.
• When the rice is 6 or 7 minutes away from being done, begin your stir fry.
• Heat a wok, wok shaped skillet, or large nonstick skillet over high heat. When the pan smokes, add wok or light cooking oil, and hot chile oil. Sprinkle in crushed pepper flakes. Add chicken and stir fry 2 minutes. Add onions, red bell peppers, and garlic and stir-fry for 1 or 2 more minutes. Add fish sauce. Remove the pan from heat and add basil. Toss chicken dish until basil wilts.
• Serve chicken and peppers with prepared rice, salad with peanut dressing.
• Heat peanut butter in microwave in a small microwave safe dish on high for 15 seconds to soften. Transfer peanut butter to a bowl. Whisk in oil, soy, vinegar, sugar, and cayenne pepper.
• Pile lettuce, bean spouts, and carrots on a serving platter. Drizzle liberally with peanut dressing and serve.
• Preparation time: 10 minutes
• Cooking time: none
• Ease of preparation: easy

THAI-STYLE CHICKEN WITH BASIL (COOK'S ILLUSTRATED)

Steps:

• Process 1 cup basil leaves, garlic and chiles in food processor until finely chopped, 6 to 10 1-second pulses, scraping down the bowl with a rubber spatula as needed (turn off processor first!).
• Transfer 1 tablespoon basil mixture to small bowl and stir in 1 tablespoon fish sauce, oyster sauce, vinegar and sugar; set aside. Transfer remaining basil mixture to 12-inch heavy-bottomed nonstick skillet. Do not wash food processor bowl.
• Pulse chicken and 1 tablespoon fish sauce in food processor until meat is chopped into approximate 1/4-inch pieces, six to eight 1-second pulses. [ NOTE: I used a blender and it started to make the chicken mushy, which was *not* what you want here. I stopped immediately and ended up hacking away at the remains with a cleaver. :o) ] Transfer to medium bowl and refrigerate 15 minutes.
• Stir shallots and oil into basil mixture in skillet. Heat over medium-low heat (mixture should start to sizzle after about 1 1/2 minutes; if it doesn't, adjust heat accordingly), stirring constantly, until garlic and shallots are golden brown, 5-8 minutes.
• Add chicken, increase heat to medium, and cook, stirring and breaking up chicken with potato masher or rubber spatula, until only traces of pink remain, 2 to 4 minutes. Add reserved basil-fish sauce mixture and continue to cook, stirring constantly until chicken is no longer pink, about 1 minute.
• Stir in remaining cup basil leaves and cook, stirring constantly, until basil is wilted, 30 to 60 seconds. Serve immediately, passing extra fish sauce, sugar, red pepper flakes and vinegar separately.

THAI CHICKEN WITH BASIL

Steps:

• In a medium bowl, combine the chicken with the fish sauce, soy sauce, water, and sugar.
• In a large nonstick frying pan or a wok, heat the oil over moderately high heat.
• Add the onion and cook, stirring, for 2 minutes.
• Stir in the chiles and garlic; cook, stirring, 30 seconds longer.
• Remove the chicken from the marinade with a slotted spoon and add it to the hot pan.
• Cook until almost done, stirring, about 3 minutes.
• Add the marinade and cook 30 seconds longer.
• Remove from the heat and stir in 1 cup of the basil.
• Serve topped with the remaining 1/2 cup basil.

THAI BASIL CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat oil in wok. Stir-fry onions, peppers, and white part of bok-choy until crisp tender. Remove and keep warm.
• Add oil to wok if needed and stir-fry chicken, garlic, and pepper flakes until chicken is done. Add sauces in order, stirring between each addition to coat. Add cooked vegetables back and stir to coat.
• Add green part of bok choy and basil, stirring just unti hot-crisp, and beginning to wilt. Serve immediately.