Thai-Style Chicken with Basil

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated January/February 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

Re-creating the flavors of gai pad krapow, a classic Thai dish, requires more than just the right ingredients. For this recipe, we also had to follow a Thai method for stir-frying.

SERVES 4

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Stir-frying at a low temperature allowed us to cook the aromatics and basil from the beginning, so they could infuse the cooking oils with their flavors. Grinding the chicken in a food processor, along with some fish sauce, gave us coarse-t...

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