Burmese Dry Chicken Curry Recipes

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Rub chicken thighs with curry powder, garam masala, salt. Cover and set aside. Place onion, garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, and paprika in a blender with 2 tablespoons of water and blend into a smooth paste.
• Heat the oil in a large, lidded skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion mixture until darkened, about 7 minutes. Stir in chicken thighs and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, then add tomatoes, lemon grass, and fish sauce. Cook for 2 minutes. Stir in 1 cup of water and bring the curry to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low and cook until the chicken begins to fall apart, stirring occasionally, 25 to 35 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat. Cook until the sauce is reduced, about 5 minutes. Skim off excess oil from the top and discard.

AL'S BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Melt butter in a wok over medium heat. Add shallots and fry until golden, about 10 minutes. Remove shallots and set aside. Add curry paste to the wok and toast until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Stir in curry powder and ground chile. Add chicken and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Stir in lemongrass, chiles peppers, coriander, and lime leaves.
• Pour in fish sauce and enough water to cover chicken. Add coconut milk; cook for 10 minutes. Toss in tomatoes and cook until starting to soften, about 10 minutes more. Reduce heat to low and simmer until flavors blend, 2 to 3 hours.
• Remove lemongrass and lime leaves. Garnish curry with the fried shallots and cilantro.

BURMESE DRY CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Chicken pieces: cut off both legs and thighs together taking as much meat as possible from the carcass at the top of the thigh, separate legs and thighs. Cut down along breast as far as wing at side of breast bone to expose ribs, cut through ribs at top along length of breast bone, cut through ribs at bottom of breast as far as wing, cut wing at joint with body and remove breast and wing as one piece, cut into two approximately one third along breast from wing.
• Grind the first 7 ingredients (i.e. up to and including the turmeric) together into a smooth paste (food processor/pestle and mortar etc). Heat oil in wide frying pan or wok and add paste, stir-fry until moisture has evaporated and paste has started to brown.
• Add chicken pieces and stir well, scrape bottom of pan to prevent sticking. Cover tightly and simmer for 35-45 minutes - there should be enough liquid given off from the chicken during cooking but check now and then and stir. If chicken does get too dry and starts sticking/burning (and it's never happened to me) add a tablespoon or so of water and stir in, scraping residue off bottom of pan.
• Shortly before chicken is ready slit open cardamom pods and extract seeds, crush seeds in pestle and mortar and add to chicken with coriander leaf, stir and simmer for a further minute or so, taste and adjust seasoning.
• Serve with plain rice or coconut rice.

CHET GLAY HIN (BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY)

Steps:

• Place the chicken on a tray.
• Mix all the ground spices and salt together, and rub it into the chicken pieces.
• Allow to rest for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, puree the onion, garlic, ginger and chili.
• When ready, heat the oil in a heavy pan until medium hot, and fry the chicken in batches until well coloured all over.
• Set aside in a dish.
• Add the pureed ingredients and fry over a high heat, stirring constantly until all the water has evaporated, and you can see the oil separate from the mass; this should take about 5-10 minutes.
• Add the curry leaves and fry for a minute.
• Add the stock, return the chicken and any juices that have come out and bring to the boil.
• Turn the heat way down to a bare simmer, and cover the pan, or else transfer the pan contents to a crockpot.
• Simmer slowly for about 1 hour, or if in a crockpot, for up to 6 hours, but no more.
• 10 mins before serving, add fish sauce and lime juice to taste, about a tblsp of each is good.
• Serve with steamed rice and chupatis.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Place lentils in large saucepan; cover with water to 2 inches above lentils. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; cover, reduce heat, simmer 25 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.
• Combine cumin and next 5 ingredients(through cloves) in a large zip-top plastic bag. Add chicken; seal and shake to coat.
• Heat oil in large dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion; saute 3 minutes. Add chicken and spice mixture; saute 4 minutes. Stir in broth, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Add lentils and bay leaves; cover and simmer 30 minutes. Uncover and simmer 10 minutes.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Clean and cut chicken into pieces and marinade in fish sauce and tumeric powder.
• Process onion, garlic and ginger in food processor.
• Fry the onion-garlic-ginger mixture in oil until fragrant in skillet or wok.
• Add the chicken pieces stir to coat.
• Make a paste of parika, chili powder and salt with a little water and add to the chicken.
• Cover and cook over medium-high heat for 15 minute.
• Turn chicken pieces and cook for another 15 min or most of the liquid is gone.
• Cover and rest for 15 min before serving over freshly cooked jasmine rice.

PANTHE KAUKSWE - BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Cut chicken into serving pieces.
• Put Garlic,onion,ginger,ngapi, in blender and blend to a smooth paste; adding some of the peanut oil if paste becomes to dry.
• Heat remanding oils in a wok (or pan) and fry mixture off for 5 minutes.
• Add chicken and fry for a further few minutes.
• Add chilli powder,salt and thin coconut milk and simmer gently until chicken is tender. (45 minutes - 1 hr approx). If it becomes to dry add some hot water - a little at a time.
• Take off heat and add thick coconut milk and bring the pot SLOWLY to a boil. Stir constantly to prevent curdling.
• Mix Chick pea with a little cold water to a smooth paste and add to the curry, and cook for a further 5 minutes.
• Cook the noodles in a pot of salted boiling water until tender around 6-8 minutes.
• Drain the noodles and place in bowls, serve the curry on top with fried garlic and peanuts as accompaniments.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY (GAENG GAI BAMA)

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a medium skillet over low heat, and stir fry the shallots until browned and tender. Drain, reserving the oil, and set aside.
• Place the chicken in the skillet with the reserved oil, and stir in the curry paste and curry powder to evenly coat. Pour in enough water to cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover skillet, and simmer until the chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.
• Stir the coconut milk, tomato puree, fish sauce, palm sugar, and 1/2 the tomato wedges into the skillet. Cook and stir over low heat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Mix in the remaining tomatoes, and continue cooking until tender. Top with cilantro and the fried shallots to serve.