Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malay spicy tomato chicken (ayam masak merah). It is 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 popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
Ayam Masak Merah - Although it shares basic similar spices to Chicken Curry. Lucky me, Bee had made it easier by suggesting Ayam Masak Merah or chicken cooked in rich creamy spicy tomato sauce. Ayam Masak Merah is a Malay/Indonesian dish which is spicy and sweet at the same time.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first 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):
- Make ready 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
- Take Blended Paste;
- Prepare 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
- Prepare 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
- Make ready 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
- Get 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
- Take 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
- Prepare 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
- Make ready For Braising;
- Prepare 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
- Prepare 1 cup Coconut Milk
- Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
- Take 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
- Prepare 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
- Prepare 1 stick Cinnamon
- Get 2 pc Star Anise
- Make ready 3 pods Cardamom
- Take 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
- Take 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
- Get Optionals;
- Take 1 Tomato (quartered)
- Get 1 Onion (Sliced)
- Prepare 1 Tbsp Ketchup
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce
All Reviews for Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah). Followed the recipe and it turned out well. 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-based gravy.
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.
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. In Malay, we call it "Ayam Masak Merah". It literally means chicken cook red or with better 'grammar', chicken cooked in red.
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