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Dinner · 15 min · 2 plates

Thai basil chicken

Hot pan, chopped chicken, a lot of basil. Rice is the plate.

The sheet · 2 plates · 15 min

easy

Why tonight. Hot pan, chopped chicken, a lot of basil. Rice is the plate.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • chicken
  • garlic
  • chili flakes
  • fish sauce
  • basil

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: soy sauce, rice.

Method

  1. Chop the chicken by hand rather than buying it ground — the uneven texture is most of why the dish works.
  2. Pan as hot as it goes, chicken in one layer, and left to catch before it is moved.
  3. Garlic and chili in for twenty seconds only, at the end, or they burn black.
  4. A large handful of basil off the heat, folded through until it just wilts. A fried egg on top and rice underneath.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

Cook or pour it, then edit the shelf if you emptied a bottle or used the last of something.

Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

chicken
Two different foods depending on the cut.
garlic
Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first.
chili flakes
Heat you can dose. Bloomed in oil they spread through everything; scattered at the table they stay sharp and sit on top. Same flakes, two different dishes.
fish sauce
Salt and deep savoriness, and it smells far stronger than it tastes once it is in something.
basil
Perfume rather than flavor, and heat destroys it.

Missing one of them? The substitutions are written against those jobs rather than against a chart, so they say what each replacement costs this dish in particular.

Cooks from the same box

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