Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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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 must first prepare a few components. 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):
- Prepare 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Get Blended Paste;
- Prepare 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
- Prepare 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
- Get 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
- Make ready 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
- Take 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Get 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Take For Braising;
- Take 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Prepare 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Get 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Take 1 stick Cinnamon
- Get 2 pc Star Anise
- Get 3 pods Cardamom
- Get 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Get Optionals;
- Get 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Make ready 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Get 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.
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.
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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