Thai Basil Chicken Recipe

Series Summary

Chicken to the left. Chicken to the right. Chicken all day long. Chicken into the night. Yes indeed chicken is ever present around the clock where ever you may go. Looking up at you from frozen dinner packages, down on you from billboards and back at you from huge produce trucks packed with a hundred of their best friends. The real question in this omni-chicken world is how to distinguish your culinary encounter with this clucking cuisine, how to make your chicken dinner better than the rest. For the solution, we turn to Chef Sven Robinson. In this free video recipe series our expert chef will show you how to make Thai basil chicken with soy and ginger broccoli and mushrooms. You will learn how to prepare a cinnamon rice, chop and saute onions, garlic, mushrooms and broccoli and prepare the chicken. You will also learn how to make the stock and the sauce for this Thai basil chicken recipe. If you love chicken but are getting tired of the same old recipe, let our expert show you something with a little flair or flavors that is sure to please the whole family.

Video Transcript

"Today, we're going to be making a chicken dish. We're going to be making a Thai-style chicken with basil. And, so, what're going to do is we're going to be putting salt and pepper on our chicken, we'll be cutting it into chunks and then we'll be sautéing it. We'll then be taking the chicken out and we'll be adding some garlic and a little bit of ginger. We're going to be using ginger powder and sort of fresh ginger and basil leaves along with some garlic and then we're going to add a little bit of soy sauce to that and we're going to put it right back in. And we're going to just let that simmer until it's all done. For our rice, we're going to be mixing together some cinnamon, along with some powdered ginger and some sugar. And we're going to be toasting our rice and we'll be adding a veggie stock to that and we'll be boiling it and then reducing it. And then stirring it up at the end again with a little bit of salt and pepper. And for our vegetables, we're going to be boiling a little bit of red pepper; some celery and then we're going to be sautéing some mushrooms and broccoli in soy sauce and ginger powder."