Chili tamarind chicken.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chili tamarind chicken using 18 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chili tamarind chicken:
- {Take 1 of whole chicken cut up into parts (approximately 1.5 kg).
- {Get 2 of red chilis.
- {Prepare 2 of red birds eye chilis (chili padi).
- {Take 5 cloves of garlic.
- {Get 5 of shallots quartered.
- {Take 3 cm of ginger (I prefer old ginger) roughly cut.
- {Take 2 cm of galangal (blue ginger) roughly cut.
- {Make ready 4 of candlenuts.
- {Get 1 teaspoon of tamarind.
- {Prepare 8 teaspoons of palm sugar (gula jawa or gula melaka).
- {Make ready 3 of bay leaves.
- {Prepare 3 of lime leaves.
- {Prepare 2 stalks of lemongrass (remove root).
- {Make ready 200 ml of coconut milk.
- {Prepare 100-200 ml of water.
- {Get As needed of salt.
- {Prepare As needed of pepper.
- {Get 2 tablespoons of cooking oil.
Instructions to make Chili tamarind chicken:
- Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius..
- Season chicken parts with salt and pepper and set aside..
- Mash up chilis, garlic shallots, ginger, galangal, candlenuts, tamarind and palm sugar into a paste using a mortar and pestle or food processor..
- Heat up oil in a big frying pan on medium heat and stir fry paste until fragrant..
- Add in bay leaves, lime leaves and lemon grass into the mixture and continue stirring for about five minutes..
- Add chicken parts into the pan and thoroughly coat them with the mixture..
- Slowly add in coconut milk followed by water and bring the whole thing to boil..
- Reduce heat to medium low and let the gravy simmer and thicken (make sure you leave enough gravy to coat chicken parts comfortably)..
- Transfer chicken parts (skin side up) into an oven proof casserole dish which is big enough to fit them snugly. Pour gravy evenly all over. Discard bay leaves, lime leaves and lemon grass..
- Leave chicken in the oven for 30-45 minutes or until the skin turns golden brown and charred. Serve immediately..
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