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I want Thai food. I've made peanut sauce 3 times in the past two weeks and the rest of the family will protest if I make it again, even though it's so good I could eat it every day. Let's see...I have chicken, lime, coconut milk, cilantro. No ginger, and my only curry is yellow. I already tried allrecipes, and not only did they have only one recipe, they wanted me to pay to see it.
quote: Thai Chicken Soup With Coconut Milk, "Tom Kha Gai"
Ingredients
16 fluid ounces soup broth (chicken stock) 4-5 kaffir lime leaves, shredded 2 inch piece lemon grass, bruised to release flavor 1 inch cube galangal sliced thinly. 4 tablespoons fish sauce 2 tablespoons lime juice 4 oz chicken breast cut into smallish bite sized pieces 5 fluid ounces coconut milk small red Thai chile peppers, slightly crushed (to taste) coriander (cilantro) leaves to garnish.
Note the number of red peppers is a personal choice. It can be as few as half a chilli per diner, to as many as 8-10 per diner, but the dish should retain a balance of flavors and not be overwhelmend by the chili peppers. We suggest about 8-12 chili peppers for this recipe.
Method
Heat the stock, add the lime leaves, lemon grass, galangal, fish sauce, and lime juice. Stir thoroughly, bring to a boil, and add the chicken and coconut milk. Bring back to the boil, lower the heat to keep it simmering and cook for about 2 minutes (until the chicken is cooked through).
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Drizzle a few tsp peanut oil or sesame oil in acast iron skillet. Add 1 jalepeno, diced ( seed it if you're "sensitive") and crush in several cloves of garlic. Stir in 1/2 cup natural peanut butter ( NOT a sweetened one) 250 ml water or coconut milk, and 75 ml soy sauce or shoyu. Once all is blended and warmed it's ready to use, but I like to keep it on low for about 1/2 an hour
OK, kq, you've just dictated my afternoon activities for me.
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Mmmmm. I love Thai food! I'm gonna get me some Thai basil just cuz I love it so much! Mmmmm. . .
Oh hey, we have a coconut shredder in our new place. One of these days - when my computer is working again - I'll post a pic of it with some Fahim shredding action. Posts: 8355 | Registered: Apr 2003
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There are days when I'm so unbelievably slow on the uptake.
This is further proof that today is one of those days.
On the other hand, I was accurate in the above statement. Fahim won't cook. But he will show me how to shred coconut. Yeah, I'm pathetic. Sheesh.
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I just realized that no one else is posting. It occured to me that dinner might be the reason. Or there's some show on Tuesday nights that everyone watches but me. I guess it is almost time for Nova, so I could go into the kitchen and cook and watch Nova.
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