Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah)
Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah)

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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. Malaysian chicken in tomato sauce recipe (called Ayam Masak Merah) is the traditional Malay dish serve on the banquet table.

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To begin with this 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
  1. Prepare 350 g Chicken meat (skinless, deboned)
  2. Make ready Blended Paste;
  3. Make ready 4 cloves (40 g) Shallots
  4. Make ready 3 cloves (20 g) Garlic
  5. Take 1/2 inch (10 g) Turmeric root
  6. Get 1 inch (20 g) Galangal
  7. Get 1 inch (20 g) Ginger
  8. Prepare 1 stalk (20 g) Lemongrass
  9. Prepare 6 pc Dried Chillies (soak in warm water)
  10. Prepare For Braising;
  11. Make ready 1/3 cup Tomato Puree
  12. Prepare 1 cup Coconut Milk
  13. Get 2 pc Tamarind slices
  14. Take 1 Tbsp Palm sugar
  15. Take 1 tsp Salt (to your taste)
  16. Prepare 1 stick Cinnamon
  17. Get 2 pc Star Anise
  18. Prepare 3 pods Cardamom
  19. Take 3 Tbsp Cooking Oil
  20. Prepare 2 Tbsp Ghee (optional)
  21. Prepare Optionals;
  22. Take 1 Tomato (quartered)
  23. Take 1 Onion (Sliced)
  24. Prepare 1 Tbsp Ketchup
  25. Make ready 1 Tbsp Chili Sauce

Once the pan is hot, place the chicken in the pan with the skin on the pan. 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).

Steps to make Malay Spicy Tomato Chicken (Ayam Masak Merah):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. OPTIONAL; in step 2 you can also add tomatoes, onions and if you like you can also add ketchup and chilli 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-based gravy. 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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