Chicken Laksa

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 500 g boneless chicken, without skin
• 1/2 tablespoon oil
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 red chile, deseeded and chopped
• 100 g snow peas or 100 g green beans, trimmed and sliced
• 1 1/2 teaspoons ground coriander
• 1 1/2 cups coconut milk (use lite if wished)
• 3 cups chicken stock
• 2 tablespoons asian fish sauce
• 200 g dried asian noodles
• 2 -3 spring onions, trimmed and chopped
• salt and pepper
• chopped coriander, and
• 2 -3 mint leaves (to garnish)

Recipe

• 1 cut the chicken pieces into thin strips.
• 2 heat the oil in a large frying pan or wok and cook the chicken over a moderate heat until golden. drain on absorbent paper.
• 3 add the ginger, garlic and chilli to the pan and cook one minute.
• 4 increase the heat and add the snow peas or green beans and ground coriander and cook a further minute.
• 5 add the coconut cream, stock, fish sauce, noodles, spring onions and chicken and simmer gently for about 3-4 minutes until the noodles are tender and the chicken cooked. season with salt and pepper.
• 6 garnish with coriander and mint leaves.