Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
This is a Malay/Indonesian dish which is spicy and sweet at the same time. Recipe was passed down to me by my mother-in-law, and although it doesn't quite taste the same as the way she makes it, my. Great recipe for Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah).
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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):
- Prepare 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Prepare Blended Paste;
- Prepare 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
- Take 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Make ready 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Make ready 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Make ready For Braising;
- Make ready 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Make ready 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Make ready 1 stick Cinnamon
- Prepare 2 pc Star Anise
- Prepare 3 pods Cardamom
- Take 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Take 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Take Optionals;
- Make ready 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Prepare 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Get 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Get 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce
This is another Malaysian dish with all the characteristics of a curry but named Ayam Masak Merah which translates literally to 'chicken cooked red'. It's a relatively simple name to describe chicken simmered in a creamy tomato. The chicken with tomato sauce recipe has less chili than other traditional Malay cuisines, ideal for the gastronomes who do not withstand other fiercely hot curry dishes and kids friendly. Ayam Masak Merah: Malay-style Chicken in Spicy Tomato Sauce Jump to Recipe - Print Recipe For someone who writes and manages a food blog felicitously named, Hooked on Heat, it comes as a huge surprise to many when I confess that until very recently, say a couple of years ago, I belonged to the clan of folks who shied away from all things spicy.
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.
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), Nasi Jagung or Nasi Briani. Essentially, it's a traditional Malay style dish. Spicy tomato chicken and I, we go way back.
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