Stir - Fried Chicken With Basil / Pat Gaprow Guy

Preparation time: 7-8 minutes
Cooking time: 5 minutes

1 person	4 persons	Ingredients:
1 ½ tablespoons	4 tablespoons	Oil
3 cloves	12 cloves	Garlic - peeled & finely chopped
3-9	12-36	Bird Chilies, red or green (a little spicy to very spicy). Whole chilies pounded once with the blade of a heavy knife to smash open
20g	80 g	Onion - sliced 1/2 cm by 4 cm
100g	400 g	Chicken - minced or cut into small chunks
30g	120 g	Bell pepper - sliced, 1cm by 3 cm
Or 30g	120 g	Long green beans
1 tablespoon	4 tablespoons	Oyster Sauce
½ teaspoon	2 teaspoons	White sugar
1 tablespoon	4 tablespoons	Light Soy Sauce
20g	80 g	Hairy basil- weigh with stem then pick off leaves
3 tablespoons	12 tablespoons	Water

Method:

1. Put oil in a wok and heat on a medium heat for 15 seconds.
2. Add garlic, chilies and onions and fry for half a minute
3. Stir in chicken and fry until well done.
4. Stir in bell pepper or green beans.
5. Stir in oyster sauce.
6. Stir in sugar and soy sauce.
7. Add water and cook for half a minute.
8. Stir in hairy basil leaves and fry for half a minute.
9. Turn off heat and pour into a serving dish.
10. Serve with steamed Rice.

For Vegetarians

Instead of chicken, add a combination of any of the following ingredients, up to 100 g per person:

• Long beans - topped and tailed and cut into 3 cm lengths
• Baby corn - cut into 3 mm rounds
• Firm tofu - cut into ½ cm by 2 cm piece