Vietnamese
Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken
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Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Finely mince the tender inner lemongrass, garlic, shallots, and chilies.
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Toss the chicken with half the lemongrass mixture, the fish sauce, and the brown sugar and marinate 15 minutes.
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Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high and cook the remaining lemongrass mixture until fragrant, about 1 minute.
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Add the chicken and its marinade and cook, stirring, until caramelized and cooked through, about 12 minutes.
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Finish with a squeeze of lime and the sliced scallions.
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Serve over the jasmine rice.
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Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Banh Mi Op La (Baguette with Fried Eggs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 460 kcal
- Protein
- 31 g
- Carbs
- 39 g
- Fat
- 20 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 3 g
- Sodium
- 700 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Vietnamese Lemongrass Chicken takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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