Thai Simmered Chicken

Recipe Ingredients

1		Chicken - (4 to 5 pounds)
		Salt
2		Water
3		Fresh lemon grass
8		Fresh galangal - (or fresh, ginger)
6		Garlic cloves - smashed
6		Fresh Thai "bird" chiles *
8		Shallots - sliced
6		Fresh kaffir lime leaves - (optional)
1/4 cup	59ml	Thai fish sauce - (nam pla)
1/2 teaspoon	2.5ml	Sugar
1/4 cup	59ml	Fresh lime juice
1/2 cup	20g / 0.7oz	Tightly packed fresh - coriander leaves
1/4 cup	10g / 0.4oz	Fresh Thai basil leaves - cut into thin strips
1 teaspoon	5ml	Black pepper

Recipe Instructions

* (or 4 Serranos), cut into coarse strips, seeds and all.

Salt the chicken inside and out and let stand for 30 minutes to an hour.

In a pot the chicken will fit in snugly, bring water to a boil. Add the chicken and when the water returns to a boil, skim the foam. Cut off the bottom 1/3 of the lemon grass stalk, discarding the rest. Cut the bottom on the bias into oval slices and add to the pot along with the galangal, garlic, chiles, shallots and kaffir lime leaves (if you can find them).

Turn the heat to medium-low, partially cover the pot, and simmer for 30 minutes. Then add the fish sauce, sugar and up to 2 teaspoons of salt (or to taste). Simmer until the skin near the wing starts to split, about 30 more minutes, then remove the chicken to a large, round serving bowl leaving the stock in the pot. Cover the chicken to keep warm.

Add the lime juice to the broth as well as the coriander and basil leaves. Pour the broth over the chicken, sprinkle with the black pepper and serve.

The chicken should pull off the bone easily; it's best eaten from bowls with some of the broth and herbs poured over.

Bruce Cost, San Francisco Chronicle, 9/14/88.

Source:
"Pan-Asian Express" by Barbara Witt Seattle Times

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