Comments on: Lemongrass Chicken with Ginger-Lime Dipping Sauce

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:36:11 +0000

As I stirred the chicken every few hours, it all seemed to moisten up on its own. In the end, it was yummy, and we enjoyed having new flavors at dinner, especially the lemongrass. This was a good recipe to stretch my skills, not that the recipe was hard, but that my skills needed stretching. What’s next?

By: Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:25:50 +0000

Hi Evan: The marinade itself isn’t all that moist, which is why I add some chicken stock and lime juice to the pan for the cooking. You don’t serve all that pan juice in the end. It works well for keeping the chicken moist while it cooks, but it’s too fatty to make a good sauce. Hence the dipping sauce. But perhaps I’m too late with this message?

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:48:37 +0000

The marinade has begun… It seems dry, though. Will it really come out as moist and saucy as it looks in your photo?

By: Cat

Cat — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:54:34 +0000

This sounds really delicious. I love flavors that are bright and light. I love the flavors of the dipping sauce, too.

By: Gillian

Gillian — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:59:48 +0000

Yeah. I’m thinking All-Clad should give me a free pan or something for burning the shape of their handle onto my body. Some pan-designer somewhere worked long and hard choosing that exact taper to the very attractive handle.

By: Lisa Belt

Lisa Belt — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 05:42:56 +0000

But the burn is an awesome tribal marking on your forearm. (the All-Clad Crazy Blog Lady Tribe)

By: Gillian

Gillian — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:33:03 +0000

Hi Suzie: A nonreactive bowl as opposed to a bowl that might react with the food you put in it. Glazed ceramic is generally nonreactive (if it’s made to be a mixing bowl, anyway). Glass is good. Stainless steel is good. Reactive bowls might be copper, aluminum, some kinds of plastic.

By: Suzie

Suzie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:43:10 +0000

Basic question for a basic gal….What’s a “non-reactive” bowl?

By: Gillian

Gillian — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:45:24 +0000

Thanks, Hungry Dog. I hope you got some good eating in over the holiday season. My only regret about the lemongrass chicken (besides not taking a pretty picture) is that I failed to consider how heavy my giant steel skillet would be with all that chicken in it. (I made one and half of this recipe.) I tried to take it out of the oven with one hand on the long handle. It tilted from the weight, and I burned the perfect shape of the end of the all-clad handle into my forearm. But I did not drop the chicken. That’s devotion.

By: hungry dog

hungry dog — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:28:43 +0000

This sounds great, yet another to bookmark. I hear you on the picture taking–sometimes you ust can’t get it done when you’ve got hungry people (including yourself) to feed. Happy new year!