Thai Meat Dishes
Chicken in Peanut Sauce (Gai Pad Nam Tua)
Ingredients
1 lb Chicken breasts 1/2" x 1/2" strips
1/4 cup Green onions chop coarse
2 tbsp Curry powder/paste (Thai Red)
1 tbsp Garlic chop fine
1 tbsp Ginger chop fine
1 tbsp Lemon grass chop fine
1 tbsp Galangal chop fine
1 tsp Chili paste
Peanut oil
1 cup Coconut milk
2 tbsp Peanut butter
2 tbsp Roasted peanuts crushed
1 tbsp Fish sauce
1/2 tbsp Palm sugar
2 cups Snow peas or Brocolli florets
Directions
Cut chicken into strips
Mix green onions, garlic, ginger, lemon grass, galangal,
curry powder and chili paste. Add chicken and toss to
coat. Set aside for 20 minutes.
If using brocolli, blanch 2 minutes.
Heat wok. Add peanut oil, chicken mixture. Stir fry 3
minutes until chicken loses pink color.
Add coconut milk, peanut butter, crushed peanuts, fish
sauce and palm sugar. Cook 3 minutes until sauce begins to
thicken.
If using snow peas, add and simmer until color changes.
If using brocolli, add and simmer until heated through.
Serve over rice.
Yield - 4 cups
BBQ Chicken (Gai Yang)
Ingredients
2 lb Chicken parts
2 cups Coconut milk
3 tbsp Galangal chop fine
3 tbsp Garlic chop fine
1 tbsp Lemon grass chop fine
3 tbsp Golden mountain sauce
3 tbsp Oyster sauce
1 tbsp Curry powder (Thai Yellow)
1 tbsp Sesame oil
1 tbsp Palm sugar
1/2 tsp White pepper ground
Directions
Mix coconut milk, galangal, garlic, lemon grass, golden
mountain sauce, oyster sauce, curry powder, sesame oil,
palm sugar and pepper.
Pour over chikcen parts, mix to coat, marinate overnight.
Preheat oven to 500F.
Place chicken on rack over drip pan in oven, reduce heat to
350F, bake 1 to 1-1/2 hours, until golden brown.
Yield - 12 pieces approximately
Seafood Clay Pot (Bot Daek)
This recipe is traditionally made in a clay pot, but any pot may be used.
Ingredients
2 cups Fish or chicken stock
1/4 cup Shallots slice thin
Fish sauce to taste
2 tbsp Lime juice
1 tbsp Garlic slice thin
1 tbsp Lemon grass slice thin diagonally
1 tsp Chili paste
2 Lime leaves (Kaffir)
6 oz. Rock cod or any firm white fish
cut into 6 pieces
6 Mussels cleaned and debearded
6 Prawns shelled and de-veined
6 Scallops
2 Squid cleaned
2 Snow crab legs
1/2 cup Coriander leaves
Directions
Slice the squid tubes into 1 inch rings. Chop crab legs
into 3 pieces each.
Bring stock, shallots, fish sauce, lime juice, garlic,
lemon grass, chili paste and lime leaves to a boil.
Add cod pieces and mussels. Cover and boil over medium
heat for three minutes, or until mussels open and meat
starts to pull away from the shell.
Add the scallops and crab legs. cover and boil for another
30 seconds.
Add the prawns and squid. Remove from heat and stir to mix.
Serve garnished with coriander leaves.
Yield - 6 pieces of each type of seafood