Evil Jungle Prince With Chicken(Or With Mixed Vegetables) Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 lb Boneless chicken breast
-OR-
1/2 lb -Mixed vegetables,
- (see note below)
2 -to
6 sm Red chile peppers
1/2 Stalk fresh lemon grass
2 Kaffir lime leaves
2 tb Oil
1/2 c Coconut milk
1/2 ts Salt
1 -to
4 tb Fish sauce,
- based on personal taste
- (omit for veggie version)
10 -to
15 Basil leaves
1 c Chopped cabbage

Directions:

1. Thinly cut chicken into 2-inch strips. (If doing veggie version, cut vegetables into thin strips.) Grind together red chili peppers, lemon grass, and kaffir lime leaves in a food processor or pound in a mortar. Heat oil to medium-high and saute pepper mixture for 3 minutes. Stir in coconut milk and cook for 2 minutes. Add chicken (or vegetables) and cook for 5 minutes or until cooked (same time for veggies). Reduce heat to medium-low. Stir in fish sauce (if using), salt, and basil. Serve on a bed of chopped cabbage.
   
   
2. Note: ÿÿFor mixed vegetables, choose from among bell peppers, string beans, water chestnuts, tomatoes (small cherry tomatoes are best), bamboo shoots, miniature corn, asparagus, cucumbers, zucchini, Japanese eggplant, and mushrooms. I particularly like string beans or asparagus, a few cherry tomatoes, shredded (rather than sliced) bamboo shoots, miniature corn, and some straw mushrooms or slender (Japanese) eggplant.
   
   Makes 3-4 servings
   
   Source: Keo's Thai Cuisine by Keo Sananikone, Ten Speed Press, 1986