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Thai Chicken with Sweet n Hot Peppers Recipe

We’re doing Make Your Own Take Out — it’s really kind of a classic. It’s Thai-style chicken with hot and sweet peppers and lots of Thai basil and Thai mint and served with jasmine rice.

Recipe featured on Rachael Ray's Meals in Minutes.

Ingredients

Sauce

  • 3/4 cup chicken bone broth or stock
  • About 3 tablespoons oyster sauce
  • 3 tablespoons light brown sugar or sugar
  • 1 1/2 tablespoons fish sauce
  • About 1 tablespoon each dark and light soy sauce or 3 tablespoons Tamari or soy sauce of choice
  • Juice of 1 lime

 

Chicken and Peppers  

  • 3 tablespoons high temp cooking oil such as peanut or safflower oil
  • 1 ¼-1 ½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast or thighs, for breast, halve horizontally then thinly slice, for thighs trim and thinly slice 
  • Salt and white pepper
  • 3 sweet peppers, red field peppers, stemmed, seeded and quartered, sliced  
  • 1 large onion, white or red, thinly sliced   
  • 4-5 fresh or dry Thai chilies, thinly sliced  
  • 1 large jalapeno, halved, seeded and sliced /Serrano pepper
  • 4 large cloves garlic, thinly sliced
  • 1 ½ inches fresh ginger, cut into thin matchsticks
  • 1 bunch Thai basil leaves or a fat handful basil tops, picked from stems and torn or chiffonade 
  • 1 cup Thai mint, stripped from stems, chopped   

 

Serve with Jasmine rice, prepared to package directions cooked in broth or water.

Directions

Whisk up sauce ingredients in a medium bowl.

 

Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high to high heat, 2 turns of the pan.  Add chicken in a single layer and brown, season with a little salt and white pepper, remove and reserve.  Add another tablespoon, one turn of the pan, add the sweet peppers and onions, toss 2-3 minutes, add chilies, garlic and ginger, toss again, add sauce and thicken a minute or 2.  Add chicken back to pan.  Wilt basil and mint into the dish and remove from heat.

 

Top rice with chicken in shallow bowls and serve.

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