Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. 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. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is something which I have loved my entire life.
Great recipe for Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah). There are several methods to this dish; you can fry the chicken first then add the fried chicken to the spicy tomato sauce or you can braise the. If you want to try and authentic Malay cuisine, Ayam Masak Merah (chicken with tomato sauce) is the ideal choice for you.
To get started with this 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):
- Make ready 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Get Blended Paste;
- Take 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
- Prepare 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
- Prepare 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
- Get 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
- Prepare 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Take 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Get 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Get For Braising;
- Prepare 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Get 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Take 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Make ready 1 stick Cinnamon
- Get 2 pc Star Anise
- Get 3 pods Cardamom
- Make ready 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Prepare 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Take Optionals;
- Prepare 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Make ready 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce
Essentially, it's a traditional Malay style dish. Spicy tomato chicken and I, we go way back. Nasi Lemak (a local Malaysian dish) stalls in K. L. are like Taco trucks in L.
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.
In my teens, if I stopped at a nasi lemak stall, I'd look out for two things. Cute guys and whether the nasi lemak stall has spicy tomato chicken. In Malay, we call it "Ayam Masak Merah". It literally means chicken cook red or with better 'grammar', chicken cooked in red. However, I can't very well call it that.
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