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ANGRY IDIOT'S THAI CHICKEN
Because of the aggro that that this recipe seems to provoke, we give two versions. Firstly a simple, idiot-proof version and secondly an augmented version for people who are more ambitious or angrier. BASIC RECIPE ... WOT U NEED FOR TWO PEOPLE
METHODDe-skin the onion and chop it into small pieces. Put about a tablespoon of the cooking oil into a medium sized saucepan. Put the pan on a medium heat and, when the oil is hot, add the bits of chopped onion.Turn down the heat and regularly stir the onion with a wooden spoon, or something. After about 10 minutes, the onion bits will be fried and will have become quite soft. Do not let this stuff burn. Meanwhile, put water in a kettle and set the kettle to boil. RTFM if you don’t know how your kettle works. While the kettle is boiling, unwrap your half chicken and, using your clean hands, pull the skin off. Either chuck this unwanted skin away or give it to your cat or dog. Next, still using your hands, pull all the chicken flesh off the chicken’s carcass and away from the bones. With your fingers, make sure that there are no chicken bones left hidden in the chicken flesh. When you’re done, get a knife and cut all the chicken flesh into bite-sized bits. Now chuck the chicken flesh into the saucepan with the frying onion and stir it all together.
Wash your hands after using chilli powder. Don’t rub your eyes or play with your privates or the evening will be ruined. On a very low heat, let the chilli-chickeny-oniony stuff fry in the bottom of the saucepan for about 5 minutes. Regularly stir is so that it doesn’t burn. Now add some boiling water from the kettle. You need to add enough water so that the mixture is just covered. Turn up the heat so that the water starts to boil in the pan and then turn down the heat so that the water is just simmering. Add a pinch of salt and stir it all about from time to time. Simmer it for about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, using a cheese grater, grate about a quarter of the block of the creamed coconut and stir it into the saucepan.Keep the heat on low and the coconut flakes will dissolve and thicken the sauce. If it’s all looking too thick, add a bit more of the boiling water. DON’T LET IT BURN. Use your common sense. If the person who is going to be eating this with you has stopped shrieking, get them to stir it and, if it burns, blame them. Meanwhile, roughly chop the fresh basil leaves. Basil leaves normally come in smallish packets from supermarkets so chop the lot - stalks and all - and bung them in the saucepan. It’s unlikely that there’s going to be anything else that you can do with all those basil leaves so you might as well use them all up. The basil loses its flavour if it is left to cook in the pan. Just give it a stir and then, a minute later, “Hoorah” ... your “Angry Idiots Chicken” is ready to serve. Splodge the lumpy chicken and gooey sauce onto a bed of hot rice or noodles. If the person that you were going to eat it with has left the house and slammed the door, don’t worry coz it reheats beautifully! And for any gastronomes out there ... here’s an appendix for ... AUGMENTED
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(c) Last-Ditch Television MMVI
Why’s
it called “Angry Idiots Thai Chicken”? Easy ... it’s
coz every time we cook this dish, there’s always some dude trying
to muscle into the kitchen to angrily announce, “That’s not
the way to prepare Thai Chicken”! But hey ... we ain’t Pacific
rimming, culinary purists, so who cares? No doubt, as soon as you start
cooking this dish, your kitchen will soon attract an idiot who’ll
shriek insults, and rebukes, and offer unwanted advice. When this happens,
just bite your lip, smile knowingly to yourself and appreciate the genius
of the appellation “Angry Idiots Thai Chicken”. 
Add the chilli powder
to the saucepan and DO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ARE USING MILD CHILLI POWDER.
It’s hard to give an exact quantity, so add the chilli powder until
the bits of white chicken in the pan are all lightly covered with the
red chilli. You’ll have to stir the chicken around while you do
this. At this point, it might be a good idea to find out if the person
who is going to share this dish with you actually likes chilli - but the
chances are that that person is already standing next to you, screaming
insults into your ear and telling you that you’re doing it all wrong.
So ignore them.
Naturally,
you could and should add some chopped garlic with the onion.