Have eaten the most beautiful dinner. Its a Bill Granger recipe from Everyday Asian. Ready in 10 mins.
Stir fried chicken with basil. (recipe calls for chicken, but minced turkey more easily available. I get the low fat one. Or butcher would prob mince chicken breasts.
Ingredients
4 garlic cloves
2 large red chillies
¼ teaspoon sea salt
2 tablespoons light flavoured oil
600g chicken mince
400g snake beans or green beans cut into 5cm lengths on the diagonal
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 tablespoon dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon caster sugar
Small handful Asian basil leaves or regular basil leaves
Pinch ground white pepper
Pound the garlic, one chilli and salt into a mortar and pestle until it forms a paste. Alternatively, place the garlic and chilli on a chopping board, sprinkle with the salt and finely chop with a knife using the side of the blade to make a paste. Slice the remaining chilli thinly.
Heat a wok or large non stick frying pan over medium-high heat. Add the oil and the garlic paste and sliced chilli and cook, stirring, for 30 seconds or until the garlic starts to colour. Add the mince and cook, stirring, for about 2 minutes or until starting to brown, then add the beans and cook for a further minute. Add the fish sauce, soy sauce and sugar and stir-fry for a further 30 seconds.
Remove from the heat, stir in the basil leaves and white pepper. Serve immediately with steamed rice
So thats the recipe.
What I actually did was squirt about a tbs garlic puree, and a tsp chili puree onto the pan with 1 finely chopped red chili (seeds and pith removed). (no oil, good non stick pan)
Chuck in turkey, stir fry on high for a few mins. (it cooks really quickly) Chick in beans, cook for another couple of mins, continue as per recipe. I used thai basil today, which is a bit aniseedy, but I prefer the normal basil.
If you dont like heat, then dont use much chili, but I think the chopped chili adds a nice bit of colour. Use a mild one. (I use waitrose cooks ingredients chilis which give a gentle kick but dont hurt!)
While it was cooking, I put my rice into microwave for 10 mins.
Served with extra greens as I'm doing slimming world and it is free on Easy Extra day,
Am stuffed, and feel like I've been really decadent. 