Thai, Ginger Chicken.

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If you guys enjoy Thai food you should enjoy this simple recipe. Just keep in mind this is not meant to be like Chinese food. It does not have a heavy sauce and the taste is no doubt Thai. Also, please do not freak out when you smell the Fish Sauce, it smells like total butt, however, once cooked it turns into a wonderful flavor.

Serving size, 1 to 2 people.

1 whole large chicken breast, sliced thinly about 3/4 to 1cup worth of meat.
1/2 cup ear horn mushrooms, Ear Horn Mushrooms can be hard to find. (note) these images show oyster mushrooms. you can sub any mushroom you like in place of the ear horn mushrooms.
3 cloves garlic
Fresh Ginger, about 3, 3" long limbs, cut match stick style AKA julienned (see images)
1/2 Onion. sliced.
2-3 dried red peppers
2 TBS Fish Sauce, http://www.piyopiyoland.com/catalog/...w-sos_thai.gif (major foodmarts are starting to
carry it.
2 TBS Soy Sauce
2 TBS Oyster Sauce
2 tsp white or brown sugar
Oil for cooking.

Start out by placing your chicken breast in the freezer for 30+ minutes, this will help firm the chicken up so it wont be as hard to slice thinly.

While the chicken is in the freezer, Cut up the 1/2 onion. mince the garlic, make your ginger into match sticks/julienned and chop up your red peppers.

Heat your pan/wok with some oil (of choice) and place your garlic, ginger, and redpeppers in the oil, heat till it puts off a nice fragrance. Add your onion and cook for about 1 minute, I like to toss the onion with the garlic/ginger/pepper mix. Add your thinly sliced chicken to the pan, at this point you can add your sugar, fish sauce and mushrooms.

Cook till the chicken looks done. When you think it's done. use a fork and pick out the largest piece of chicken you can see. Check the chicken to make sure it's done. If the largest piece is cooked through then chances are the rest of the chicken is done.

Serve on top of rice. I prefer sticky rice.

A note about matchstick/julienne.

(View pictures) you want to cut the sides off the ginger to make a nice rectangle shaped piece of ginger. Once you have a nice block to work with, cut thin strips from it, lay the strips on their sides and cut into match sticks.

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