Thai Lemongrass fried chicken
Ingredients required:
• Chicken breast cut in slice and diced to large cube size 500 gms
• Garlic crushed 6 cloves
• Crushed black peppercorn 2 tsp
• Lemongrass stalk 4 nos cut in to 1- 1/2" length.
• Coriander(Cilantro)roots 4 nos
• Oyster sauce 1 tbsp
• Fish sauce 1tbsp
• Sugar 1 tsp
• Kosher salt to taste
• Corn starch slurry 2 tbsp
• Kaffir lime leaves 3 nos finely chopped
• Cooking oil for frying
Use a mortar and pestle to pound garlic, coriander roots, lemongrass stalks, peppercorns and garlic to a coarse paste. Make sure you pound well lemongrass until it’s soft,fluffy and stringy. Add this to chicken. Pour in oyster sauce, fish sauce, sugar and salt and mix well.
Now prepare cornstarch slurry and add to chicken and mix thoroughly.
Ensure, the clumps of lemongrass need to be broken down while mixing.
Cover the chicken using cling film and let it rest for half an hour.
Heat a pan, pour required oil to fry the chicken. Drop in pieces of chicken along with bits of lemongrass and coriander roots.
Make sure you are frying the chicken by batches and taking out all lemongrass and coriander roots which might have left loose and separated from the chicken pieces.
Add on chopped kaffir line leaves and toss well.
Happy Cooking!
