Appetizers
Gai Hor Bai Toey (Chicken in Pandan Leaves)
Chicken in Pandan Leaves, or Gai Hor Bai Toey, is another popular Thai dish with chicken marinated wrapped in pandan leaves and deep-fried, and serve with sesame sauce. This dish is more a restaurant food from middle class restaurants to high end restaurants because it is more delicate in preparing and appearing.
Pandan leaves or Pandanus Amaryllifolius, and or Bai Toey (in Thai), is a tropical plant and is used widely in Southeast Asian cooking as a flavoring and coloring. In Thailand
About 18 pieces
Ingredients
400 - 450 g or 2 Large chicken breasts (boneless and skinless), cut into approx 1.5 inch chunks.
½ tsp Ground pepper
3 roots Cilantro (coriander), chopped and pound with pestle
4 cloves Garlic, chopped and pound with pestle
Pinch of Salt
1 tbsp Soy sauce
2 tsp Oyster sauce
1 tbsp Sesame oil
1 tbsp Cooking wine
1 tsp Potato starch or corn starch
10 Pandan leaves, cut into half
Oil for frying
Instruction
- Marinate chicken with ground pepper, coriander roots, garlic, salt, soy sauce, oyster sauce, sesame oil, patato starch and cooking wine for an hour or more.
- Wrap each piece of chicken in a pandan leaf until finish all. (see the pictures)** It’s better let some part of chicken being exposed so that part of chicken will get nice brown color.
- Fry in Oil until cooked or turn golden and put on the plate and serve with sauce.
Secure chicken with toothpicks ( in Thailand pandan leaves are cheap so we use a whole leaf for wrapping one piece of chicken and it's long enough to fold itself without using a toothpick to secure)
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| The steps of wrapping chicken |
Sesame Sauce
4 tbsp Thick sweet soy sauce (there are two kinds of thick soy sauce; sweet and salty) if thick sweet soy sauce is not available, Hoisin sauce can be used as a substitute.
1½ tbsp White vinegar
1 tsp Soy sauce
½ tsp Ginger, chopped very fine
½ tsp Roasted sesame seeds
Instruction
Sesame Sauce
- In a pot, heat sweet soy sauce, white vinegar and soy sauce on medium heat until sweet soy sauce dissolved and add ginger. Combine well.
- Remove from heat and transfer to a sauce bowl.
- Garnish with sesame seeds.
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