Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Gai Pad TaKrai (stir fried chicken with lemongrass)

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, gai pad takrai (stir fried chicken with lemongrass). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

This scrumptious noodle recipe 'Pad Thai Gai' is the real deal - a version of famous Pad Thai (only easier!) direct from Thailand. The noodles are stir-fried until they have that famous Thai sticky/chewy taste. You'll love the sweet-sour balance of flavors along with the comforting combination of chicken. Lemongrass is often used for flavouring dishes but for this Thai recipe, the takrai (lemongrass) is pounded until it becomes fine and stringy… Place fried chicken and lemongrass into a clean pot.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have gai pad takrai (stir fried chicken with lemongrass) using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Gai Pad TaKrai (stir fried chicken with lemongrass):

1. Make ready 100 g sliced chicken thigh or breast (sliced)
2. Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass (pounded and sliced)
3. Get 2 Kaffir leaves (remove stem)
4. Get Coriander root and stem (roughly chopped)
5. Take 60 g straw mushrooms (quartered)
6. Get 1 garlic (crushed and chopped)
7. Get 1/2 onion (core removed, cut into chunks)
8. Prepare 1 coriander stem and root (chopped roughly)
9. Get 1 shallot (quartered)
10. Get 1 Thai chilli (cut in half)
11. Make ready 1 big chilli pepper (sliced roughly)

Gai = chicken, Sai = added, Takrai = lemongrass. Pound the lemongrass with the back of a cleaver or meat tenderizer, then slice it very thinly. Heat a little oil in a wok or skillet (we used a skillet, as shown in pictures at right) to medium high heat, add the shallots, onions, garlic, extra-fine chile. When the eggs are set, stir to incorporate the onion mixture.

Instructions to make Gai Pad TaKrai (stir fried chicken with lemongrass):

1. Heat vegetable oil and fry chicken with garlic and Thai chilli until chicken is cooked
2. Add half of lemongrass, coriander root, shallot to wok. Save other half for a fresh garnish once dish is prepared.
3. Add chilli pepper and mushrooms.
4. Deglaze with chicken stock and season with oyster sauce, soy sauce, black pepper and sugar.
5. Add Kaffir lime leaves and take off heat.
6. Garnish with lime juice and remaining herb/veg mix.
7. Enjoy :)

Heat a little oil in a wok or skillet (we used a skillet, as shown in pictures at right) to medium high heat, add the shallots, onions, garlic, extra-fine chile. When the eggs are set, stir to incorporate the onion mixture. Add the fish sauce, lemon zest and juice, and noodles. I applied this recipe, from a famous menu from my Faculty at Ubon Ratchathani University, called Kamoi Dtub(Pork's liver and lemongrass stir-fry). Authentic Thai recipe for Grilled Lemongrass Chicken, Gai Yang Takrai from ImportFood.com.

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