Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
Ayam Masak Merah has unique flavours, the taste is beautiful and unforgettable although it shares some basic similar spices (cinnamon, cloves, star anise and chillies) to Chicken Curry. It is distinctively different, be it in the texture of the chicken or the tantalizing flavours in the sauce. The chicken pieces are rubbed in with turmeric and salt and are deep fried till golden in colour.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah) using 25 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
- Get 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Take Blended Paste;
- Prepare 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
- Take 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
- Prepare 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
- Get 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
- Get 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Take 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Make ready 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Take For Braising;
- Make ready 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Get 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Take 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Take 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Take 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Prepare 1 stick Cinnamon
- Prepare 2 pc Star Anise
- Prepare 3 pods Cardamom
- Get 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Get 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Get Optionals;
- Take 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Make ready 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Take 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce
Prepared with spices, fresh ingredients and pantry staples like tomato puree and coconut milk, it's deliciously sweetish, savoury, and tangy. One of Malaysia's preeminent food writers and cooks, hers was the Masak Merah I had been hoping for and it didn't disappoint! Simple, both in method and ingredients, this was Malaysian home cooking at its best, and with just a few tweaks was the closest I've come to finding a recipe that matches my recollection and expectations. In Malay, we call it "Ayam Masak Merah".
Steps to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
- Heat the oil (and Ghee if you like) in the wok at high heat. Fry the cinnamon, star anise and cardamom until fragrant (10 seconds). Then add the blended paste and chicken. Mix well and fry until the oil separates.
- Once the oil separates, turn down the heat and add the coconut milk, palm sugar, tamarind slices, tomato puree and salt. Cover the wok and cook between 10 to 20 minutes (depends on how you cut your chicken), stirring occasionally every 5 minutes until sauce thickens. Chicken is ready to serve.
- OPTIONAL; in step 2 you can also add tomatoes, onions and if you like you can also add ketchup and chilli sauce.
It literally means chicken cook red or with better 'grammar', chicken cooked in red. However, I can't very well call it that. So, I'm calling it whatever I want to call it which is One Pan Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce. I love Ayam masak merah !! Nice aroma turmeric fried chicken in spicy, hint of sour from tomato and lemongrass sauce, so good !
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