Evil Jungle Prince with Chicken (Or With Mixed Vegetables)
Recipe
- Title:
- Evil Jungle Prince with Chicken (Or With Mixed Vegetables)
- Categories:
- Thai, Poultry
- Yield:
- 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 lb Boneless chicken breast
- 1/2 c Coconut milk
OR
- 1/2 ts Salt
- 1/2 lb -Mixed vegetables,
- 1
- -to
- - (see note below)
- 4 tb Fish sauce,
- 2
- -to
- - based on personal taste
- 6 sm Red chile peppers
- - (omit for veggie version)
- 1/2
- Stalk fresh lemon grass
- 10
- -to
- 2
- Kaffir lime leaves
- 15
- Basil leaves
- 2 tb Oil
- 1 c Chopped cabbage
Directions
- Thinly cut chicken into 2-inch strips.
- (If doing veggie version, cut vegetables into thin strips.)
- Grind together red chili peppers, lemon grass, and kaffir lime leaves in a food processor or pound in a mortar.
- Heat oil to medium-high and saute pepper mixture for 3 minutes.
- Stir in coconut milk and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add chicken (or vegetables) and cook for 5 minutes or until cooked (same time for veggies).
- Reduce heat to medium-low.
- Stir in fish sauce (if using), salt, and basil.
- Serve on a bed of chopped cabbage.
Directions
- Note: ===== For mixed vegetables, choose from among bell peppers, string beans, water chestnuts, tomatoes (small cherry tomatoes are best), bamboo shoots, miniature corn, asparagus, cucumbers, zucchini, Japanese eggplant, and mushrooms.
- I particularly like string beans or asparagus, a few cherry tomatoes, shredded (rather than sliced) bamboo shoots, miniature corn, and some straw mushrooms or slender (Japanese) eggplant.
Directions
- (3-4 servings)
Directions
- Source: Keo's Thai Cuisine by Keo Sananikone, Ten Speed Press, 1986 From: arielle@taronga.com (Stephanie da Silva)
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