Vietnamese Stir Fried Chicken With Lemon Grass

Recipe Ingredients

• --------- FOR THE MARINADE ---------
• 1.00 Stick fresh or 2tb dried
• Slices lemon grass
• 2.00 lb Chicken pieces, cut into
• Small pieces
• 1.00 Garlic clove, large
• 0.5" cube fresh ginger
• 1.00 tb Sugar
• 1.50 tb Tomato paste
• 0.50 ts Salt
• 0.25 ts Chilli powder
• 0.25 ts Ground turmuric
• --------- YOU ALSO NEED ---------
• 2.00 Cloves garlic
• 3.00 tb Vegetable oil
• 1.00 tb Fish sauce OR salt to taste
• 4-8 tb chicken stock
• 3.50 oz Onions

Recipe Directions

• First prepare the marinade.


• If you are using fresh lemon grass, cut it crossways into very thin slices, starting at the bulbous bottom end and going up around 6"".


• Discard the strawlike top.


• If you are using dried lemon grass, soak it in 4 tb of hot water for an hour.


• Put the chicken pieces in a bowl, add the fresh lemon grass or the drained soaked dried lemon grass (save the soaking liquid).


• Peel and crush the large garlic clove, peel the ginger and grate it finely.


• Add the garlic, ginger, sugar, tomato paste, salt, chilli powder and turmeric to the chicken.


• Mix, cover and set aside for 1-24 hours, refrigerating if necessary.


• Peel and finely chop the two garlic cloves.


• Put the oil in a wok or large, lidded frying pan and set over a high heat.


• When it is hot, put in the garlic.


• Stir and fry for 30 secs or until the garlic is golden.


• Add the chicken along with its marinade.


• Stir and fry for 5-6 mins or until the chicken browns a little.


• Add the fish sauce and either the lemon grass soaking liquid or 4 tb stock.


• Stir once and cover.


• Cook on a high heat for 5 mins.


• Lift the lid and stir, adding another 4 tb of stock.


• Cover, turn the heat to low and cook for another 5 mins.


• While the chicken cooks, peel the onions and cut them into 0.


• 75" dice.


• Separate the onion layers within the diced pieces.


• Turn the heat under the chicken to high, remove the wok lid, add the onion and fry for 1 minute.


• Lift the chicken out its oiul and serve.

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