♥...Spicy Turmeric Chicken...♥

Back again with yet another Chicken dish this time. Hehehe...missed posting Chickens on my site..

Let's get into the recipe..

SPICY TURMERIC CHICKEN (Ayam Pedas Berkunyit) by love2cook

Ingredients :-

• 1 whole chicken ~ cleaned and cut into medium-sized pieces, pat dry
• 10 shallots *
• 6 garlic cloves *
• 1.5 inches ginger *
• 1.5 inches fresh turmeric *
• 7 pcs red chillies *
  
• 7 pcs bird's eye chillies *
• 4 lemongrass stalks *
• 2 inches galangal *
• 250ml thick coconut milk
• 4 pcs kaffir lime leaves
• 3 tamarind slices
• salt to taste
• cooking oil

Method :~

1. Blend all ingredients marked * until it becomes a paste.
2. In a bowl, add chicken pieces, blend paste, kaffir lime leaves and little salt. Mix well and marinate for about 1 hour.
3. Heat oil in wok, deep fry the marinated chicken pieces until 3/4 cooked. (Keep aside the excess marinated mixture together with kaffir lime leaves). Dish out the fried chicken pieces on a paper towel.
4. Reduce oil in wok, leave enough to stir. Pour excess marinated mixture into wok and leave it to simmer, covered for 5 minutes.
5. Add thick coconut milk, tamarind slices and salt. Stir together and let it boil for 10 minutes.
6. Lastly, add in the fried chicken..cook covered for another 5 minutes or until the chicken is well cooked. Dish out. Ready to serve with hot steaming rice.

Reduce intake of bird's eye chillies if U prefer a non-spicy version.

Hope U'll enjoy the dish as we did...