Chicken Wings & Basil
Chicken Wings & Basil
This is a quick and easy meal and you can make it as spicy as you wish. This is written exactly how I just seen my seen my wife make this. Most Thais do not use a recipe and even more rare is measuring anything. Serve over rice and you have a easy lunch or dinner.
Ingredients
- 250 grams chicken wing drumets
- 4-5 cloves garlic, smashed and peeled
- 20-30 Bird's Eye Chilis
- pinch salt, to taste
- pinch powdered chicken stock
- handful Thai Basil, also know as hot basil, stems removed
Instructions
- Take the chicken wing drumets and cut each in half with a cleaver.
- Pinch off the stem end if you wish and place chilis in a mortar, light smash the chilis just a few times, you are NOT making chili paste, just light smashed chilis.
- Heat a non-stick pan to medium heat and add the chicken pieces, chilis, garlic, pinch of salt to taste, pinch of chicken stock powder. Add a bit of water, maybe 2 tablespoons, and stir everything together and let it simmer until chicken is cooked through, maybe 10 minutes, most of the water should be cook off at this point.
- Add the basil and stir together, cook for about 2-3 minutes until the basil is good and wilted. Serve over rice.
Notes
Chicken wing drumets (also called chicken wing sticks) runs about 80 Baht/kilo, this dish would cost about 40 Baht, well under $1 per person per meal, easily 4 meals.
The basil and chilis come fresh from our yard.
Provided courtesy of my wife, Rrayada Thayer.
Thailand.
Thailand.
We eat a lot wings at our house and this sounds like a nice change from our usual Buffalo style or BBQ sauced up wings. I totally agree about how Thais cook and prepare food…Recipe what is that?….Our Thai kitchen never seen measuring spoons before I arrived, if I never used them, they would never be used…But Thais understand how foods should taste and continually test for taste.
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Thanks, Brian, look forward to your review after you make this.