Stir Fried Garlic Chicken

This is another dish I tried half-successfully to re-create. This one is called Gai-Pad-Gra-Tiem-Prik-Thai as in stir fried chicken with garlic and ground pepper. The original version is shocked-full of fried and crunchy garlic with a trailing heat from ground black and white pepper. The dish is quite dry. The meat is dark in color from the "black soy sauce" which is the thicker and sweeter kind of soy sauce than what you can find in normal supermarkets.

My version was very tasty but that's where the similarity ends. My dish was not dotted with crunchy garlic. It wasn't quite spicy enough or dark enough. Regardless, it's something delicious I can make from ingredients I already have in the house.



Ingredients - make about 3-4 portions when served over rice.

• 1 1/2 pounds chicken breast - cut into bite size pieces


• 1 tablespoon fish sauce


• 1 tablespoon soy sauce


• 2 teaspoon brown sugar


• 1 head of garlic - peeled and minced


• Ground white pepper and ground black pepper


• 1 tablespoon cooking oil

Directions

1. Marinate the chicken with fish sauce, soy sauce and sugar while chopping up garlic and frying it.


2. In a large pan over medium high heat, stir garlic in oil until lightly brown.


3. Add chicken. Stir occasionally until cooked through. Add ground pepper. Serve over steam jasmine rice.