Thai Pesto Chicken

I have this lying around in my kitchen on a Wednesday

This is a fantastic chicken sauce, marinade, or even a bomb pasta sauce. It combines the ideals of pesto sauce, with the flavors of great Thai food, with the American values of grilled chicken. It gets spicy, sweet, sour, salty, grilled, creamy, cheesy, etc. Its really good.

C'mon you didn't think I'd go on vacay without creating something to get rid of my stock piled food, did you?

Marinade slash Sauce slash Baste

First make the sauce thing. You can use this as a marinade if you plan ahead, but if you are like me you needed this spur of the moment, and you can use it like a baste. Also, if you have meat to dip, you can use this as a sauce. Its fairly re-donk.

In a blender, combine:

• 1 bunch of Thai basil leaves, no stems
• 4 garlic cloves
• 3 Serrano chilies
• 1T fish sauce
• 1/2c water
• 1 celery stalk
• 2T olive oil
• Juice of 1 lime

It should look like Fig. 2.

Figure 2. What it should look like. Blender needs to be fast to make it this green.

Dismember a chicken (61 seconds, no PR but still 10 seconds faster than my PR from a week ago). Coat in salt and pepper. Grill for 30 out of a planned 40 minutes for a chicken (let this requirement dictate heat levels). Once almost done, baste like in Fig. 3.

Figure 3. Basting in the glory

Toss and then re-grill that shit. Flip and re-baste. Cook the sauce onto the chicken and you have a freaking spicy, delicious Thai Pesto Chicken.