Dinner Tonight: Thai-Style Minced Chicken with Basil and Chiles

Name: Dinner Tonight: Thai-Style Minced Chicken with Basil and Chiles
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 473 milliliters cooked white rice, for serving; 1 Tbsp Thai or Vietnamese fish sauce; 237 milliliters fresh basil leaves, thinly sliced; 1 Tbsp minced garlic; 4 servings Ground pepper to taste; 454 grams ground chicken, or boneless, skinless meat chopped in a food processor; 1 red or orange bell pepper, cut into 1/2 inch strips and then into diamonds; 2 Tbsps peanut oil, divided; 1 jalapeno or serrano chiles, cut crosswise into rings; 1 Tbsp Thai black soy sauce; 1 small yellow onion, thinly sliced into crescents

Dinner Tonight: Thai-Style Minced Chicken with Basil and Chiles is a gluten free and dairy free main course. This recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 28g of protein, 10g of fat, and a total of 323 calories. If you have meat in a food processor, ground pepper, basil leaves, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the soy sauce you could follow this main course with the Panna Cotta with Strawberry-Vin Santo Sauce as a dessert. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 10 minutes.

Instructions

In wok or other stir-fry pan, heat 1 tablespoon of the oil over high heat until just smoking, then add the onion. Stir-fry for 1 minute, then add bell pepper and stir-fry for an additional minute.

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Onion

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Add garlic and cook for another 30 seconds, then remove the pan from the heat and scrape contents into bowl.

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Garlic

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Bowl

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Heat remaining two tablespoons oil over high heat until just smoking, then add chicken all at once.

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Whole Chicken

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Spread evenly in skillet and cook, without stirring until golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir-fry until pink is completely gone and chicken is cooked through, about 2 minutes longer.

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Whole Chicken

Spread

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Return cooked vegetables to pan and add chiles. Stir-fry for 1 minute, then add the soy sauce and cook for 15 seconds. Follow with fish sauce and basil leaves and cook until just wilted, then season with pepper. Taste for balance, adding soy sauce, fish sauce, or more pepper as needed.

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Fresh Basil