Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken Fillets
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Chicken again? Yes, I love to have chicken for every dinner if I can, LOL…Some friends of my daughter have noticed that our family eats chickens quite often. As I got some fresh lemon grass in my fridge, it’s a good reason to cook a dish with lemon grass. I’ve been craving Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken Fillets for a while.
Lemon grass is commonly used as a herb in Vietnamese cuisine. The fragrance of lemon grass is so sweet, with a citrus flavor, that would enrich the flavour of any kinds of meat, especially for pork and chicken. They can be easily found at any Asian grocery stores. To use the lemon grass, we only need the white stalk by removing the green leaves outside and the end. In order to bring up more flagrance of it, finely chop and/or pound it in with mortar and pestle. Sometimes I’m quite lazy or feel tired, thus I just throw the lemon grass stalks in a mini food processor and chop them for a few seconds. The sweet fragrance smells heavenly.
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