My Favorite New Recipe!

I love Thai food, but I don't like making new Thai recipes. The reason being that you never know if it's going to be drop dead delicious or just drop dead. I'm a white American girl, so while I enjoy the effects fermented fish sauce has on dishes, I'm not quite ready to eat fish sauce straight. (I'll actually never be ready for this) So whenever you make a new Thai dish, it's a bit of a crapshoot. It might be awesome or it might be awful. As I was making this recipe for the first time, I was pretty sure it was gonna be awful. I mean it even smelled bad. I dreaded even taste testing it as I was getting close to finishing. As I drew the sauce up to my quivering tongue, I braced myself for a disgusting fishy nastiness- but instead, I got a delightfully sweet, tangy, spice that can only be described as Thai Food!


Originally I made this stir fry over rice, but as you can see in the picture I tried it with noodles- both were great!


Here's what you do:


First make your stir fry sauce by combining 3 tbsp oyster sauce and Golden Mt Sauce (My Asian Market was out so I used soy sauce which is similar), 1 tbsp of fish sauce, lime juice, and 2 tbsp of brown sugar. Stir this up and set aside. 


I cut up one boneless, skinless chicken breast and sauteed it with four cloves of  chopped garlic and one sliced jalapeno. I added 1 onion completely slivered. 1-2 sliced red and/or yellow bell peppers. Now you can add whatever kind of veggies you love- I've tried zucchinis, mushrooms, and broccoli and they were all really delicious. 


Stir fry all of these ingredients. If you need some extra liquid, add some white wine or rice vinegar. Just a few splashes to keep everything moist. Once your chicken is cooked and you veggies are at their desired softness, you can add your noodles if you're using them. I added just plain old cooked whole wheat spaghetti. You can use whatever you like but the spaghetti noodles were surprisingly complimentary in this and I used the whole wheat so there would be a firmer texture in the noodles.

Now you can pour in your stir fry sauce (don't worry it really will be good!) Mix this up and add a couple handfuls of rudely chopped fresh basil. This is really one of the main ingredients so don't skip it!

Let your basil wilt just a little and serve. You can sprinkle on a little more fresh basil as desired! Oh- it's good!