Phat Phet Gai - Spicy Thai Chicken
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Serves: 4
 
Ingredients
  • 2 small onion
  • 4 cloves garlic
  • 1-cm ginger
  • 2 lemongrass
  • 4 red chillies
  • 3 bird's eye chilli
Other ingredients
  • 1kg chicken parts
  • 5 lime leaves
  • 2 lemongrass
  • 2 pcs dried tamarind
  • 1 tbsp sugar
  • Salt to season
Instructions
  1. In a frying pan/wok, heat up 3 tbsp of oil and saute blended ingredients, lemongrass and lime leaves for about 10 minutes
  2. Add chicken, salt, dried tamarind and stir fry for 10 minutes.
  3. Add water and cover the pot/pan and let the chicken simmer.
  4. After the chicken is cooked, add sugar.
  5. Keep sautéing till the gravy is thick and it coats the chicken.
  6. Fish out the 2 slices of tamarind if you can as the gravy can get sourer if it sits in there for too long.
Recipe by Maya Kitchenette at https://mayakitchenette.com/phat-phet-gai-spicy-thai-chicken/