Thai Peanut Chicken with Coconut Rice recipe

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Thai Peanut Chicken with Coconut Rice recipe
Recipe for Thai Peanut Chicken with fragrant coconut rice.

Ingredients

Fragrant Coconut Rice:
15ml Peanut Oil
250ml Rice - use fragrant Jasmine rice if you have it
250ml Water
125ml Coconut Milk (I used a light one)
Pinch Salt
5ml Palm Sugar
5ml Lime Juice
30ml Dessicated Coconut (dry toast 15ml and save for garnishing)
Fresh Coriander for garnishing

Thai Peanut Chicken:
2 skinless chicken breasts - sliced into smallish cubes
Peanut oil
1 Small Onion - peeled and chopped
A good 4cm of Fresh Ginger - grated
3 Large Garlic cloves - grated
4 Spring Onions - sliced diagonally in thin slices
1 Red Pepper - deseeded and sliced into cubes
1 Tomato - skinned, deseeded & chopped
10ml Fresh Coriander - finely chopped
5ml Sambal Oelek - or use 1 or 2 fresh chopped red chillies if you have them
2ml Sesame Oil

Sauce:
10ml Ponzu Soy Sauce
5ml Fish Sauce
10ml Palm Sugar
45ml Smooth Peanut Butter (I use the non sweetened one)
10ml Rice Wine Vinegar
Few drops of Hot Chilli Sauce (I used Bushmans Chilli but you can use tabasco as well
60ml Coconut Milk
Little water to thin if needed
100ml Dry Toasted Peanuts - just pop the peanuts into a pan over high heat and toast them while constantly shaking the pan until they release their aroma and start turning brown. Don't let them burn!

Directions

Coconut rice:
Place the oil in a saucepan and add the rice. Stir over medium heat until all the rice is shiny and coated.

Add the rest of the ingredients except for the last 15ml of Coconut for garnishing

Bring to the boil over medium heat while stirring then cover tightly with lid and reduce heat to low.

Allow rice to simmer gently for about 10-15 minutes until the liquid has all evaporated.

Turn the heat off completely and allow rice to sit with the lid on until you are ready to serve. It will continue steaming and softening.

I always cook my rice this method and always get perfectly cooked rice.

Peanut chicken:
Mix all the sauce ingredients together in a bowl and set aside

Pour a bit of peanut oil into a wok, add the chicken cubes and saute over medium heat until just lightly browned, drain with a slotted spoon and set aside

Add the onion, red pepper, spring onions, sambal oelek, garlic and ginger to the wok and saute for a minute or so

Add the tomato and coriander and stir fry for a minute then remove all and set aside

Add the sesame oil to the wok then add the sauce, adding a little water to thin it down if needed. Stir constantly and bring to the boil then remove from the heat.

Add the chicken and the vegetables back to the wok, together with most of the and toss all together gently till the sauce is evenly distributed through the mixture

Scoop out into a serving bowl, garnish with some of the toasted peanuts, roughly chopped coriander and spring onions.

Fluff up the still warm rice with a pair of chopsticks or a fork, serve in a separate bowl garnished with some toasted coconut and fresh coriander.

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