Thai Basil Chicken Recipe

Ingredients :

1 lb. skinned, boned chicken breasts
4 cloves garlic, minced
4 green onions, chopped
2 TBS peanut or olive oil
4 tiny green or red Asian chili peppers, stemmed and finely chopped
3/4 cup finely chopped fresh basil leaves
2 TBS fish sauce

Method :

Put chicken breasts in freezer until firm but not frozen solid. Cut
chicken into tiny slivers. Heat up wok, add oil, and stir-fry garlic and
green onions until tender but not brown, about 1-2 minutes. Add chili
peppers and cook, stirring, about 1 minute more. Add chicken and stir-fry
until cooked through. Stir in basil and fish sauce, mixing thoroughly.
Serve over rice, if desired.

Yellow Coconut Chicken Curry Kaeng Kari

Ingredients:

oil to fry
500 g chicken drumsticks
2 small onions
250 g potatoes
2-3 TS (table spoon) red currypaste
3-4 TS yellow curry powder
500 ml coconut milk
approx. 100 ml water
1-2 TS palmsugar
salt or fish sauce to season
1 big red chili pepper to garnish

Prepararation:

Peel the potatoes, cut them to quarters and cook them, until done in salted water.
Heat oil in a pot and roast the chicken drumsticks gently,
add the red currypaste and stir well, add the yellow currypowder and roast
until it smells aromatically, then deglaze with water.
Add the coconutmilk and the onions and let it simmer for about 30 min, by stiring frequently.
Now add the pre cooked potatoes and season with palm sugar, salt or fishsauce.
Garnish with small chili stripes and serve the yellow chicken curry with Thai jasmin rice.

Red Thai Curry - Kaeng Phed

Ingredients :

1 package red curry paste
or about 50 g homemade red currypaste
250 ml coconutmilk
250 g meat (pork, beef, chicken…) in stripes or cubes
3-4 Makeur (Thai aubergine), quartered
1-2 Kaffir lime leaves
6-8 small Thai aubergines (Makeur puang)
Salt or fishsauce
Sugar or palm sugar
1-2 stems Horapa Thai Basil
1 red chili
2-3 TS thick coconut cream to garnish

Preparation:

Heat the coconutmilk in a pot, if it´s simmering
add the red currypaste and stir well.
Add the Kaffir lime leaves and the meat
and let it cook slowly until it´s done,
then add the Makeur and let it cook another 5 minutes.
Season the red curry with salt and sugar or fishsauce and palmsugar.
Garnish with whole or roughly chopped Horapa Thai basil leaves,
stripes of a red chili and a few tabespoons of thick coconut cream.
Serve the red coconut milk curry with steamed jasmin rice (fragrant Thai rice).

Penang Gai (Chicken Penang Curry)

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons Penang curry paste
1 pound chicken breast (cut into bite sized pieces)
1 14 ounce can coconut milk
3 tablespoons fish sauce
2 teaspoons palm sugar (grated, or white or brown sugar)
4 kaffir lime leaves (chopped)
2 red chilies (thinly sliced)
1 handful Thai basil

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a pan.
2. Add the curry paste and saute for a few minutes.
3. Add the chicken and saute until cooked.
4. Add the coconut milk, fish sauce and sugar and cook for a few minutes.
5. Add the lime leaves, chilies and basil and remove from the heat.

Moo Satay (Pork Satay) with Peanut Sauce

Ingredients:

2 teaspoons coriander seeds (toasted and ground)
2 teaspoons cumin seeds (toasted and ground)
1 stalk lemongrass (peeled & chopped)
1 tablespoon galangal (or ginger, grated)
1 teaspoon kaffir lime peel (or regular lime peel, grated)
1 teaspoon turmeric (ground)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons palm sugar (grated)
1 pound pork (cut into thin strips)
1/4 cup peanut sauce
* wooden skewers (soaked in cold water for 30 minutes)

Directions:

1. Mix the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, lemongrass, galangal, lime peel, turmeric and salt in a mortar and pestle of a food processor.
2. Mix in the oil and palm sugar.
3. Cover the pork in the mixture and marinate for 3-5 hours.
4. Skewer the pork and grill it for about 5 minutes on each side.

Peanut Sauce
Ingredients:

1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 tablespoon penang curry paste or red curry paste
1/4 cup coconut milk
1/4 cup chicken stock
1 tablespoon palm sugar (grated, or sugar)
1 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons lime juice
1 tablespoon peanut butter
1/4 cup peanuts (roasted, and crushed)

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a pan.
2. Add the curry paste and saute for a few minutes.
3. Add the coconut milk, chicken stock, sugar, salt, lime juice and peanut butter and simmer of a few minutes while stirring.
4. Add the peanuts, stir and remove from the heat.