Ingredients
Method
Chicken marinade
- Add all ingredients except cooking oil together and set aside to marinate while you prepare the other ingredients.
- When ready to cook, heat pan, and add cooking oil.
- Brown chicken on both sides, then remove from pan and set aside.
Gravy
- In the same pan, toast chilli padi, shallots, garlic, lemongrass, and galangal until lightly browned.
- Add chicken stock and bring to boil, then add lime leaves and coriander root.
- Cover, reduce heat to medium and allow to infuse for 5 minutes.
- Then fish out and discard lemongrass, shallot, garlic, lime leaves, coriander root, and galangal.
- Add musrooms, tomato, cai xin stems, and prawn.
- Allow to cook for a minute.
- Season with fish sauce, sugar, and lime juice.
- Add in cai xin leaves, and give it a quick stir.
- Thicken gravy with corn starch slurry.
- While stirring, pour in beaten egg.
- Remove from heat, and stir in reserved chicken pieces.
- Serve over steamed rice, garnish with coriander.
Notes
Make it child-friendly by omitting the chilli padi.