Malay-Style Red Chicken Curry (Ayam Masak Merah)

Ingredients :

1. 1 whole chicken

 

2. 1 spoon of salt

3. A pinch of ajinamoto

4. 3 tomatoes

5. 430 gram tomato paste

6. 1 spoon of turmeric powder

7. 2 or 3 lemon grass

8. 1 onion
9. 5 or 4 garlic
10. 4 inch of galangal
11. 1 inch of turmeric
12. 2 or 3 inch of ginger

13. Half grasp of dried chilies (soak and wash)

Second step :
1. Mix chicken with turmeric powder and salt. Fried the chicken until half cook.

Third step : 
1. Blend the dried chilies, onion, garlic, galangal, turmeric and ginger together to make the paste.
2. Pounded the lemon grass.
3. Cut the tomatoes into four parts.

Last step :
1. Put the pot on the stove and pour to cooking oil until the heat comes out.
2. Then put the paste in the pot, salt, ajinamoto and lemon grass, stir until it cook. Later put the tomato paste in the pot and stir until it dried a little bit.
3. Next put the chicken in the pot and mix together with the ingredients.
4. Lastly put the tomatoes and mix together with all the ingredients. Leave it for few minutes and turn off the stove once it done. Best to be serve when it still hot.