Baked Malaysian Coconut Chicken Curry
- 1 cup Cold, Leftover Roast Chicken
- 1 teaspoon Up To 1 Tablespoon Yellow Malaysian (not Indian) Curry Paste, To Taste
- 1 piece Galangal, About 1-Inch Long (Or Fresh Ginger)
- 2 whole Shallots
- 6 whole Lime Leaves
- 1 whole Small Lime
- 14 ounces, fluid (400ml) Coconut Milk
- 1 whole Large Potato, Peeled And Chopped
- 1 Tablespoon Lime Juice OR Thai Fish Sauce
- 3 Tablespoons Desiccated, Shredded Coconut
- Rice, Enough To Form A Bottom Layer In Your Casserole Dish
- I love curries with lots of vegetables, and the Malaysian Kari Ayam (Chicken Curry) mainly uses potato and chicken.
- Feel free to add any other vegetables that you like!
- I have used French green beans, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, baby Thai eggplants, pea eggplants, baby sweet corn, and they were all great!
- 1.
- Cook your rice while you are making the curry.
- Then, using a good-sized saucepan or nonstick flat-bottomed wok, heat up some vegetable oil until the pan is good and hot.
- Lower the heat and put the galangal, shallots, lime leaves in and fry for a minute or so to release the oils and flavours.
- 2.
- Add the curry paste.
- Its best to start with a teaspoon if youre a curry novice, and work your way up to the right heat for you.
- Its far easier to add spicy heat than it is to remove it!
- If its too hot, you can temper it with a spoonful of brown sugar.
- Fry the paste for another minute.
- 3.
- Add the chicken pieces and coat the chicken in the paste well.
- 4.
- Pour the tin of coconut milk in and stir it well until the curry begins to change colour from white to yellow.
- 5.
- Add the potatoes and leave to simmer with the lid on at a low heat for 25 minutes.
- 6.
- Add any other fast-cooking vegetables now, stir and let them cook for 5 minutes.
- If you want to bake the curry to finish it off, do not cook the vegetables in the curry.
- Turn off the heat and then add the vegetables.
- 7.
- Taste the curry now and if you want more flavour, add any fish sauce or lime juice now.
- One small lime is plenty, or about 1 tablespoon of fish sauce will be enough, as fish sauce is extremely salty.
- Stir in the shredded coconut.
- 8.
- Put hot rice in an oven-proof casserole dish and spoon the curry on top.
- Brown under a hot grill or bake for 10 to 15 minutes at 200C before serving.
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Taken from tastykitchen.com/recipes/main-courses/baked-malaysian-coconut-chicken-curry/ (may not work)