Gai Pad Grapao
Thai Chicken with Basil
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it can also be made with, beef, pork, and seafood Ingredients
1 lb ground or minced chicken
4 whole cloves garlic
6 whole shallots, pealed
1/4 cup, mixed red & green Thai chilies
1 cup chopped long beans
1 cup holy basil leaves,
1 teaspoon ground pepper
1tbs oyster sauce
2 tbs fish sauce - nam pla
1 teaspoon palm sugar You can vary this recipe by adding a medium diced onion or sliced green onions, or a combination. Method
1. The garlic, shallots and chilies, are ground together in a mortar and pestle.
2. In a hot wok with a little cooking oil, briefly stir fry this paste to bring out the flavour and aroma.
3. add the chicken and stir fry, for a couple of minutes
4. Add the remaining ingredients and continue to stir until the chicken is cooked through.
Serving
Serve over Thai jasmine rice, with a fried egg, placed on the top.
For dinner it goes well with the hot and sour tom yam soups, as well as curries and other Thai food.
Add the usual Thai table condiments as well as ground chilies and sugar. You might also add ground black pepper .
Variants
You can experiment by replacing the meat with hard tofu marinated in a mixture of sweet soy, fish sauce and ground ginger, soy, or a vegetable mix of your choice (we like to mix broccoli and cauliflower florets, with julienne carrots), to make a vegetarian gai pad-grapow |
