Peanut Butter Chile Chicken

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Ingredients

• 2 large chicken breasts, thinly sliced
• minced garlic
• minced ginger
• chopped cilantro
• chiffonade of basil
• scallions/green onion
• 1/2 chopped red bell pepper
• soy sauce
• peanut butter
• corn starch
• sugar
• freshly ground black pepper
• chili paste
• oil

Velveting the chicken: to the chicken, add soy sauce, corn starch, oil and black pepper. Stir to coat chicken.

1. Heat oil and fry garlic until fragrant. Add chicken and ginger (do this in batches if your pan is too small to allow all the chicken pieces to touch the bottom of the pan. you want the pieces to brown equally) and brown for 3-4 minutes. Remove from pan and set aside.

2. To pan, add half of the scallions, basil and cilantro. Allow to wilt, then add red bell peppers. Return chicken to pan. Add peanut butter and chili paste dissolved in hot water. Let simmer until sauce thickens.

3. Stir in remaining scallion, cilantro and basil. Serve over steaming rice.

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  JaiLovesCake says

  im.in.love. had to be said

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  worldpeas says

  peanut butter does that to me, too lol

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  celia says

  oh GOD. this looks so GOOD!

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  JaiLovesCake says

  i made it!!!! i gave you credit too , i said recipe's from this lovely girl on a food site i like to go to. My friends loved it , eventho im sure yours is far better .

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  JaiLovesCake says

  PS : i didnt have peanuts for decoration so i used some cashews i had in my pantry lol.

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  worldpeas says

  well i'm glad you all liked it! wasn't it really quick to cook too? good times. those nuts on top are cashews, too-- i didn't have peanuts on hand. but a good tip (and i should have included it) is to use chunky peanut butter, so the peanuts are right in there to begin with :)

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  MissJ9 says

  Looks fantastic and has been added to my (endless) To Try list. Thanks for putting this up!

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  MikeDrawback says

  Quick is good! I alllllways have peanuts handy, I'll have to try this one.

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