Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah)
Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah)

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is something which I’ve 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 begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah) using 25 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
  1. Make ready 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
  2. Make ready Blended Paste;
  3. Make ready 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
  4. Prepare 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
  5. Get 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
  6. Prepare 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
  7. Make ready 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
  8. Make ready 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
  9. Get 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
  10. Make ready For Braising;
  11. Prepare 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
  12. Get 1 cup Coconut Milk
  13. Take 2 pc Tamarind slices
  14. Get 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
  15. Get 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
  16. Get 1 stick Cinnamon
  17. Make ready 2 pc Star Anise
  18. Prepare 3 pods Cardamom
  19. Prepare 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  20. Get 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
  21. Take Optionals;
  22. Get 1 Tomato (quartered)
  23. Prepare 1 Onion (Sliced)
  24. Take 1 Tbsp Ketchup
  25. Take 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):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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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