Thai cooking course – Phad King Gai (ผัดขิงไก่)

Thai Ginger Chicken is a Chinese influenced Thai dish with high popularity all over the country and in Laos. Phad King is as well prepared with a variety of other meats like pork and beef or as well vegetarian with tofu. The most important ingredient is the Ginger which gives this Thai dish it’s unique characteristic taste. It is served with rice.

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Thai Ginger Chicken

The pictures show a slight variation of the recipe with no mushrooms, but sweet corn and a few other amendments. Feel free to experiment yourself since ingredients for every recipe in the world are not written in stone, but a very important thing in good cooking is choosing the freshest ingredients.

Prep Time

10 minutes

Cook Time

10 minutes

Servings

people

Ingredients

• 100 g Ginger long thin slices (juliennes)
• 200 g Chicken thin sliced
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1/2 Onion
• 200 g Mushrooms Can be any kind
• 1 Chilli leave it away if you don't like spicy food
• 1/2 Red Pepper
• 2 Spring onions
• 3 tbsp Cooking oil
• 2 tsp Soy sauce
• 2 tsp Dark soy sauce
• 3 tbsp Oyster sauce
• 2 tsp sugar
• 1/2 tsp Black Pepper

Prep Time 10 minutes Cook Time 10 minutes Servings people Ingredients 100 g Ginger long thin slices (juliennes) 200 g Chicken thin sliced 2 cloves garlic 1/2 Onion 200 g Mushrooms Can be any kind 1 Chilli leave it away if you don't like spicy food 1/2 Red Pepper 2 Spring onions 3 tbsp Cooking oil 2 tsp Soy sauce 2 tsp Dark soy sauce 3 tbsp Oyster sauce 2 tsp sugar 1/2 tsp Black Pepper

Instructions

1. Heat oil in a pan and add garlic, ginger and onions

   
2. Then add chicken. Stir until it is cooked.

   
3. Now you start to add all the sauces - first soy sauce and dark soy sauce

   
4. Add sugar and a bit of water. Heat until it boils.

   
5. Then add oyster sauce and mushrooms.

   
6. Taste it and add more sauce if it still doesn't taste right.
7. At the last minute add red pepper and spring onions.

   
8. Stir a bit, then turn off gas