Ga Kho Nam (Caramel-Braised Chicken with Shiitake Mushrooms)
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Ingredients
- 600 g chicken thigh fillets, diced
- 20 g dried shiitake mushrooms
- 40 g caster sugar
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 2 shallots
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 spring onions
- 320 g jasmine rice
Nutrition (per serving)
- Calories
- 540 kcal
- Protein
- 36.7 g
- Carbohydrate
- 78.9 g
- of which sugars
- 12 g
- Fat
- 7.5 g
- of which saturates
- 2 g
- Fibre
- 2.3 g
- Salt
- 2.10 g
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Method
- 1
Soak the shiitake mushrooms in hot water for 10 minutes, then drain and slice, keeping the soaking liquid.
- 2
Melt the caster sugar in a pot until it turns a deep amber caramel, then carefully stir in the fish sauce and the mushroom soaking liquid.
- 3
Add the chopped shallots, garlic, mushrooms and chicken, cover and simmer for 20 minutes until the chicken is cooked through with no pink remaining.
- 4
Cook the jasmine rice according to the pack. Scatter the chicken with spring onions and serve with the rice.
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