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Easy and Delicious Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil

Jul 9, 2019Last Modified: April 28, 2021

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Chicken With Thai Basil served with rice and pair of chopsticks holding up the chicken

Do you like Thai hot? Then you will LOOOOVE this recipe for Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil!

Thai cuisine is one of my absolute favorite cuisines in the world. The complex flavors and fresh ingredients captivate me. Fortunately, my husband loves Thai as well, but he likes his dishes "Thai hot."

Thai Hot!

So what is "Thai hot?" Blazing, scorching heat! He seems to be able to take this kind of heat, and we've found that most of the Thai restaurants at which we have dined have been unable to deliver this Thai hot that he is asking for.

With the exception of ONE restaurant here in San Antonio that knows how to do Thai hot. We were fortunate to find this awesome restaurant, and I wanted to try to replicate their Thai hot version of Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil at home. I believe I've been able to get close, and am sooo excited to share this recipe with you!

Thai Basil and Thai Chili

Chicken with Thai basil is an extremely simple, easy, and quick to prepare meal. The basil that I refer to is Thai basil, which is an absolutely essential ingredient in this dish! The chilies to make this dish spicy will need to be Thai chili or bird's eye chilies, which is also critical for this dish. I do not recommend using other types of chilis...please stick with Thai.

Thai Basil
Beautiful and fragrant Thai Basil

The Ingredients You Will Need To Make This Incredible Dish!

Thai basil, sliced onion, three crabs fish sauce, sliced bell pepper, and Thai chilies

You'll need to prep all your ingredients ahead of time, because this cooks up in a flash. Serve with jasmine rice, and you may want to have a glass of milk handy if the heat ends up being too much for you. 🙂

All you will need is onion, bell pepper, Thai basil, garlic, Thai chilis, fish sauce, chicken, and olive oil.

Regarding the fish sauce, I want to recommend my favorite brand, the Three Crabs brand. You can get it here on Amazon, or at your local Asian market. I really think hands down it is the best!

Three Crabs Fish Sauce
Three Crabs Brand Fish Sauce is The BEST! 🙂

Having said all this, if you'd like this dish to be on the milder side, simply reduce the amount of Thai chilis. Either way...this is still absolutely delicious!

Chicken With Thai Basil served with rice in a white bowl with a pair of purple chopsticks on the side
Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil is best served with your favorite pair of chopsticks!

To counteract all the heat, you may want to serve this with a delicious Thai cucumber salad.

Thai Cucumber Salad

Some Other Recipes You May Enjoy!

Easy Spicy Thai Chicken Drumettes!

Spicy Thai Chicken Drummettes on a white plate with chopsticks

The One and Only HOT and NUMBING Chengdu Chicken!

Chengdu Chicken

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I do hope you will give this a try! Enjoy this taste of Thailand!

Cheers! Grace

Chicken With Thai Basil served with rice and pair of chopsticks holding up the chicken

Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil

Grace
This most delicious of Thai dishes packs a huge spice punch! Fragrant Thai basil and Thai chilis are the stars of this dish. As good as what you'll find at your local Thai restaurant!
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 6 mins
Total Time 16 mins
Course Main Course
Cuisine Thai
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

  • ½ large onion sliced
  • ½ red bell pepper (or whatever color you desire!) sliced
  • 6 cloves garlic minced
  • 10 Thai chilis minced; use more for hotter, less for milder
  • 1 bunch Thai basil
  • 5 tablespoon Thai fish sauce
  • 1 lb chicken breast sliced into bite sized pieces
  • 2 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions
 

  • Set your stove to high, and heat up 2 tablespoon olive oil until shimmering.
  • Add minced garlic and Thai chilis, and continuously stir fry for 20-30 seconds.
    Stir Frying Thai Chili Garlic and Oil
  • Add sliced onion and bell pepper, and continuously stir fry for 1-2 minutes.
    Stir frying garlic, Thai chilies, sliced onion, and bell pepper in a large skillet with a wooden spoon
  • Add sliced chicken and cook for 3-4 minutes or until cooked through, stirring continuously.
    Pieces of chicken with sliced bell pepper, sliced onion, garlic and chilies in a large skillet with a wooden spoon
  • Add fish sauce, stir, and then finish by adding your bunch of Thai basil and stir for around 30 seconds.
    Chicken With Thai Basil and Rice

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Notes

Enjoy your Spicy Chicken With Thai Basil with the one and only Thai Jasmine Rice!  
Feel free to adjust the number of Thai chilies in this dish...the number called for in the recipe will make this very spicy, so adjust to your tastes!
Keyword Chicken, Thai Basil
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Hi I’m Grace! I'm married and a mom to my fur baby, Toby, and food and travel are two of my greatest passions! Since our bank account does not allow us to travel or eat out as much as we'd like, I decided I would cook delicious meals that could give us a taste of all the places we'd like to go. My goal is to get you in the kitchen, and inspire you to cook and taste delightful meals that will transport you too. Let’s throw some actual travel in from time to time, all with an emphasis on keeping your wallet full and happy as well. Let’s get cooking and let’s start exploring!! I'm excited to be on this journey with you!!

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