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.

Servings

Ingredients

• Ginger cut like you did in the cooking class, add more if you like
• Chicken
• garlic
• onions
• Mushrooms Can be any kind
• Chilli
• Red Pepper
• Spring onions
• Cooking oil
• Soy sauce
• Dark soy sauce
• Oyster sauce
• sugar
• Fish sauce

Servings Ingredients Ginger cut like you did in the cooking class, add more if you like Chicken garlic onions Mushrooms Can be any kind Chilli Red Pepper Spring onions Cooking oil Soy sauce Dark soy sauce Oyster sauce sugar Fish sauce

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