Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
All Reviews for Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah). Followed the recipe and it turned out well. Malaysian chicken in tomato sauce recipe (called Ayam Masak Merah) is the traditional Malay dish serve on the banquet table.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
- Get 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Make ready Blended Paste;
- Make ready 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
- Take 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
- Take 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
- Make ready 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
- Prepare 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Take 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Make ready 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Prepare For Braising;
- Take 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Take 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Make ready 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Take 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Take 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Get 1 stick Cinnamon
- Get 2 pc Star Anise
- Take 3 pods Cardamom
- Get 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Get 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Prepare Optionals;
- Get 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Take 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Take 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce
Ayam Masak Merah is a Malay/Indonesian dish which is spicy and sweet at the same time. Pieces of chicken are first pan-fried to a golden brown then slowly simmered in a spicy tomato sauce. This popular Malay dish is especially scrumptious with Nasi Tomato (tomato rice). This is another Malaysian dish with all the characteristics of a curry but named Ayam Masak Merah which translates literally to 'chicken cooked red'.
Instructions 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's a relatively simple name to describe chicken simmered in a creamy tomato-based gravy. Cooked in garlic, tomato sauce, cayenne chillies, lemongrass, turmeric, cinnamon, star anise, cloves and cardamom, this Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken Heat the pan over medium-high heat and add the ½ tsp of oil. Once the pan is hot, place the chicken in the pan with the skin on the pan. This spicy tomato chicken dish, called ayam masak merah, was given to us by our local guide Farah; it's her sister-in-law's personal recipe and one that she recommends for an authentic Malaysian berbuka puasa. Slowly braise in a sweet tomato sauce, this chicken has lovely spice from ingredients such as chilies, lemongrass, and cloves.
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