Basil, lime and sweet chilli stirfry v1.0

[ysabet_the_red]

Well, since I want to start eating more ethnic foods, I decided to make a thai-style stirfry last night. It was basil, lime and sweet chilli. It went well, although I think I needed to fry the basil first, and use more of it, because I couldn't really taste it in the final dish. I used fresh capsicum, broccoli, baby pack choi and baby corn for veges, and plain basmati rice to serve. It was a very subtle sauce - the flavours of the veges really shone through. We had it with 'Holly's Garden' - a really nice Pinot Gris.

Notes for future trials: Juice of 1 lime, 2tbsp of sweet chilli sauce (ish), more than 1 stalk of basil, cook the basil in oil first. Maybe would have worked better with coconut rice.

It was rather yummy :)

Comments

[pyros-au.livejournal.com]

you realise that the (food?) capsicum isn't asian, yes?

sorry, just the reason i refuse to eat most asian is the fact that for some strange reason people keep putting capsicum in it. got to stop the trend somewhere.

otherwise that sounds interesting. what sort (if any) meat did you use?

[aiofe.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm aware that that particular variety of the peppers family isn't asian. However, I like it. A lot. Which was why it was in there. :P

I used chicken as the meat; I figured that since I wasn't using a lot of flavours, anything else would overpower the sauce.

[pyros-au.livejournal.com]

(*shakes head in dispair*) yet another lost. ahwell.


heh, i would have recomended chicken for that reason.

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

Aha. I dislike capsicum. Seems a good enough reason not to keep putting it in :)

[rophuine.livejournal.com]

We (read: Nomie and Tori) have been cooking sweet chilli chicken stirfry lately. I couldn't tell you what we've been putting in it, but it's ABSOLUTELY delicious. I CAN tell you we've been using coconut rice, and it turns out wonderfully.

[aiofe.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, coconut rice. Yum. I <3 it. Now all I have to do is learn how to make it ...