Basil Sauce Chicken

Ingredients:

• 200 g chicken thigh fillets (cut into chunks)
• 1 inch galangal
• 1 tbsp garlic (finely chopped)
• 2 shallots (finely sliced)
• 1 red chili-pepper (deseed and finely chopped) - use 6 Thai bird-eye chilis if you like it spicy
• 2 lime leaves
• 1 tbsp basil flakes - use 6 leaves of fresh Thai Royal Basil if you like strong herbal taste
• 1 tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce
• 2 tbsp Thai fish sauce
• 1/8 cut of lime
• a dash of white ground pepper
• 3 tbsp canola oil

How to:

• heat up the canola oil in a frying pan
• add in garlic, shallot, and red chili-pepper. Stir till fragrant
• add in chicken thigh fillets. Stir till the outer layer is not pink anymore
• add in galangal, lime leaves, basil flakes, sweet soy sauce, and fish sauce. Stir for 5 minutes
• squeeze the lime and add in a dash of white ground pepper. Stir and taste
• serve for 2