Ingredients
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1 tablespoon peanut oil
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600 g chicken breast fillets, thinly sliced
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1 long fresh red chili, thinly sliced diagonally
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2 stems lemongrass, pale section only, finely chopped
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2 tablespoons fish sauce (gluten-free if needed for a gf diet)
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1 tablespoon caster sugar or 1 tablespoon grated palm sugar
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3 green onions, ends trimmed, thinly sliced diagonally
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1/3 cup dry roasted salted peanut, coarsely chopped
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steamed rice, to serve
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a wok over high heat.
- Add the chicken in batches and stir-fry for 2 minutes or until browned. Usually around 3 batches of chicken (If cooked in onw whole batch it tends to stew rather than cook throough and brown).
- Transfer the browned chicken to a large plate.
- Add the chilli and lemon grass to the wok and stir-fry for 1 minute or until aromatic.
- Add the chicken back into the wok along with the fish sauce, sugar and half the shallot to the wok and stir-fry for 1 minute or until the chicken is heated through.
- Divide the chicken mixture among 4 serving plates.
- Scatter the peanuts and remaining shallot over the chicken.
- Serve with steamed rice.