Thai Basil Chicken
This super tasty Thai basil chicken stir fry takes less than 10 minutes. This ground chicken with Thai basil or Pad Krapow Gai is one of my favourite street food lunches when I'm in Thailand. I also love this Thai basil recipe with ground beef.
Super tasty and ready in less than 15 minutes, this ground chicken recipes uses minced chicken breast to lower the fat content and has finely chopped green beans to increase the fibre content, making for a lighter and healthier version of the traditional Thai basil chicken.
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Thai holy basil has a unique peppery aniseed taste that holds up even when cooked like this. I would love to tell you that you can replace the Thai or holy basil with sweet European basil but unfortunately you won’t get the same effect. These days you can get Thai basil in most Asian stores. Alternatively, Thai basil is quite easy to grow, Thai basil plants and seeds are increasingly available in garden centres and online.
Thai Basil Chicken
Ingredients
450g Chicken ground chicken (minced)
1 small onion, finely chopped
Handful of long beans (or french beans), chopped into 1cm pieces
3-5 birds eye chili peppers
5 cloves of garlic
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 tablespoons soy Sauce (I use Tamari)
1 tablespoon fish sauce
1 tablespoon sugar
Coconut oil to fry
1 fried egg per person
Large bunch of Thai basil
Chili to garnish
Method
Grind the chilis and garlic into a paste with some salt, a pestle and mortar works best for this. Remove the seeds if you would like to reduce the heat from the chilies.
Combine the oyster sauce, soy sauce, fish sauce and sugar in a bowl and set aside.
In a wok, or heavy bottomed pan, fry the paste in coconut oil until it releases its aromas. Add the onions and stir without letting it brown.
Add the ground chicken to the pan along with the beans and sauce mixture. Keep stirring until the chicken is cooked through but not dried out. Stir in the basil leaves and remove from the heat.
Fry the eggs in some more coconut oil.
Serve the chicken mix with rice, topped with a fried egg and garnished with more chili if desired.