I am a Master Chef

My mum gave me a cookbook for my birthday, and I had some friends over on Friday night and decided to go all out and cook a Pad Thai with chicken, even though I generally don’t cook (that’s what the boy is for) and have never cooked a Thai dish in my life. Well, surprisingly enough, or not so surprising, it turned out a bit shit. The recipe was a bit bung (I love it when they miss ingredients) and I totally screwed up the rice noodles, but it still had some good flavour. So I tried again tonight, modified it, and created a superiorly delicious meal.

Ingredients

1 cup Thai jasmine rice, washed thoroughly
1 tsp cooking oil
3 garlic cloves, chopped
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, diced
1 large red chilli, finely chopped and deseeded
1 carrot, julienned
4 spring onions, sliced diagonally
2 eggs
2 tbps rice vinegar
3 tbps fish sauce
1 tbps fresh lime juice (about half a medium lime)
dash of soy sauce
2 tbps sugar
big handful of cilantro (coriander), chopped

Method

  1. After washing the rice, put a thumb knuckle’s worth of water on top. Put on the stove on high and let boil until little holes appear in the rice and the water has mostly gone. Cover, turn town really low and cook for 15 minutes. Do not open the lid!
  2. Cook the beaten eggs in a wok on a high heat to make a thinnish omelette. When cooked, take off the heat, cut into short strips and set aside.
  3. Add cooking oil to the wok, and quickly saute the garlic.
  4. Add the chicken and cook until browned.
  5. Add the chilli, carrots, and spring onions, and stir fry for about a minute longer.
  6. Add fish sauce, rice vinegar, soy sauce, lime juice, sugar, egg strips, and cilantro. Stir thoroughly.
  7. Give the rice a quick stir, and pat into a cup and tap the cup of rice onto a plate. Add cooked food, a bit of juice, and top with a sprig of cilantro.
  8. ENJOY!

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2 comments

  1. bzcam
    12 March 2005 at 5:08 am

    That Thai fish sauce is something else, isn’t it? Whew!

  2. pippy
    12 March 2005 at 10:54 am

    I have a proposition for you which in no way relates to your Thai Chicken pie…You know that photo of you standing next to the animal vaccine testing place on Whakatiki Street? You’re wearing John Lennon sunglasses (I know you know which one). Could you post it onto supermodels.com? If you do, I promise to uphold the God Squad promise and pray for your soul every day.

    I love you! God bless.

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