Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, malay chicken curry. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Chicken Curry is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Malay Chicken Curry is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
This easy curry chicken dish is the standard curry chicken. No fuss, just yummy and creamy curry. Rich in coconut milk and spices, this dish is a must-try. As the chicken pieces are marinated in curry paste before cooking, the taste of the meat is enhanced.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have malay chicken curry using 28 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malay Chicken Curry:
- Get Curry Powder recipe (85 cents at store)
- Prepare 3 tsp Chili powder (or Cayenne)
- Make ready 1 tsp Turmeric powder
- Take 1 tsp Cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Coriander powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Fennel Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Fenugreek/Mustard Seeds
- Take Main Ingredients
- Prepare 350 g Chicken meat (deboned, skinless)
- Make ready 4 cloves (50 g) Shallots (finely chopped)
- Take 3 cloves (30 g) Garlic (finely chopped)
- Prepare 1 stick (20 g) Ginger (finely chopped)
- Prepare 2 pc Green Chillies (cut into pieces)
- Make ready 2 pc Red Chillies (cut into pieces)
- Get 1 pc cinnamon stick
- Take 2 pc Star Anise
- Take 3 pods Cardamom
- Take 4 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Get to taste Salt
- Prepare 5 Curry Leaves
- Make ready 1 cup Coconut milk
- Get 2 pc Tamarind slices or use 1/3 cup Tamarind juice
- Get Optional;
- Take 1 pc Potato (cubed)
- Prepare 1 pc Carrot (cubed)
- Take 1 pc Red Onion (quartered)
- Make ready 1 pc Tomato (quartered)
- Prepare 3 Tbsp Coconut paste (kerisik)
This authentic Malaysian curry is perfect for dinner and serves well as leftovers for lunch. It is a tasty combination of chicken thighs with the thick curry sauce over potatoes, red bell pepper and snap peas on a base of shallots, garlic and ginger. Put the garlic, chillies, lemon grass, ginger and shallots in a food processor to form a paste. (Or you can use a pestle and mortar). Next, heat the oil in a large heavy-based pan.
Steps to make Malay Chicken Curry:
- Heat oil in wok on high heat and fry Cinnamon, star anise and cardamom until fragrant. Then Add shallots, ginger and garlic and fry until fragrant (10 seconds). Then add the curry powder and chicken. Mix well and cook until the oil separates.
- Add the coconut milk, tamarind slices (or juice), green and red chilies, curry leaves, salt (1 tsp) and mix well. [Optional; here is where you also add potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and onions.]
- Bring to a boil and turn the heat down. Cover the wok with a let to let the liquid absorb into the chicken. Cook for 20 minutes and stir every 3 to 5 minutes. Once the gravy has thicken, the dish is done.
Put the garlic, chillies, lemon grass, ginger and shallots in a food processor to form a paste. (Or you can use a pestle and mortar). Next, heat the oil in a large heavy-based pan. When the oil is hot, sear the chicken, skin side down, until golden. Flip the chicken skin side up and add the coconut milk, chicken stock, cinnamon stick, star anise, and lime leaves. Don't forget to remove the ginger, cinnamon sticks, bay leaves and chili halves from the cooking liquid after removing the chicken.
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