Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, malay chicken rendang. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Chicken Rendang is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Malay Chicken Rendang is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Here I have just the perfect chicken rendang recipe for you. Rendang originated from Indonesia but they are very popular and well loved by many in Malaysia. Chicken rendang is slow cooked and stewed in the rendang sauce and my chicken rendang recipe yields flavorful and tender chicken, with complex structure of flavors, with the intense aroma of the exotic spices.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have malay chicken rendang using 23 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Malay Chicken Rendang:
- Make ready 350 g chicken meat (deboned, skinless)
- Take 4 cloves (40 g) shallots
- Prepare 3 cloves (25 g) garlic
- Prepare 8 dried chilies or 4 live chilies
- Prepare 1 inch (20 g) turmeric root
- Take 1 inch (20 g) galangal
- Get 1 inch (20 g) ginger
- Take 1 stick (20 g) lemongrass
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin powder
- Make ready 1 tsp coriander powder
- Make ready 1 tsp fennel powder
- Prepare 1 tsp fenugreek
- Make ready 2 star anise
- Prepare 1 cinnamon stick
- Get 3 cardamom pods
- Take 1 Tbsp palm sugar
- Get 3 Tbsp coconut paste (kerisik)
- Make ready 2 turmeric leaves (sliced finely)
- Make ready 3 kaffir lime leaves
- Get 2 tamarind slices (asam keping)
- Get 1 cup thick coconut milk
- Prepare 3 Tbsp cooking oil
- Take Salt to taste (1 tsp)
I made this lovely chicken rendang lighter by using less amount of coconut milk and it taste wonderful just the same 🙂. Chicken Rendang, A Versatile Dish and The Perfect Nasi Lemak Accompaniment. Traditional Malaysian Chicken Rendang is also a dish that is extremely versatile. You can serve this flavourful rendang dish with steamed white or saffron rice, ketupat (a compressed rice cake) or lemang (glutinous rice cooked in bamboo tubes) and thick slices of bread.
Instructions to make Malay Chicken Rendang:
- Blend shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, chilis, turmeric root into paste.
- Heat oil in wok and fry cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, cumin, fenugreek, coriander and fennel until fragrant. Then add in the blended paste and cook until color has darken and the oil separates.
- Add chicken and cook well. Next add the coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, tamarind slices, turmeric leaves and palm sugar. Mix well and cook until the liquid thickens but not yet dry. Then add coconut paste and cook until desired consistency or until dry. Add salt to taste.
Rendang is a dry type of curry. Traditional Malaysian Chicken Rendang is a version of dry chicken curry dish & is so rich in flavours and spices. It is one of the specialties in Malaysian cooking. by Huang Kitchen. Rendang is a dry type of curry, simmered for a long time, which allows the meat to soak up all the flavours that make up this unique dish. Traditional Malaysian Chicken Rendang is a version of dry chicken curry dish and is one of the specialties in Malaysian cooking.
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