Indonesian Style Curry Paste Recipes

INDONESIAN CHICKEN CURRY RECIPE

Steps:

• Place the spices, chilies, cashews garlic, shallot, and ginger in a food processor and grind into a paste.
• Heat the peanut oil in a large skillet or work over medium-high heat. Add cinnamon sticks, lemongrass stalks, and lime leaves. Let cook one minute. Add the ground paste and use a wooden spoon to break it up and mash into the oil. Let cook two minutes.
• Add chicken pieces and cook two to three minutes per side, until browned.
• Stir in half of the coconut milk and all of the chicken broth. Cover, reduce heat to low, and let simmer 10 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through.
• Stir in the rest of the coconut milk and the fish sauce. Serve hot with lots of rice.

INDONESIAN STYLE CURRY PASTE

Steps:

• Put chopped onion into the grinder or food processor.
• Put next 6 ingredients into pestle and grind them to coarse paste to release the flavour.
• Stir in the paste to the onion and grind them until they become fine paste.
• Toast coriander and cumin in low heat to release the flavour.
• Stir in toasted coriander, cumin, shrimp paste and salt to the paste and continue to grind them until paste become moist and fine.
• Heat up the oil in the saucepan in medium low heat.
• Pour the paste into the saucepan and stir occasionally and turn the heat to low when it gets hot and keep stirring in, all is about 10 minute.
• Cool off the paste before storing it.

INDONESIAN-STYLE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Finely grind the coriander and chilli flakes in a spice grinder or mortar and pestle. Put the spice mixture into a small food processor with the garlic, onions and ginger and puree to a paste. Adding 1-2 tablespoons of water, if necessary.
• Heat the oil in a large casserole or saucepan with lid, over medium-low heat. Add the paste.
• Cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, 5-7 minutes.
• Add lime leaves, cinnamon and lemongrass. Cook, stirring occasionally, until cinnamon is fragrant, about 2 minutes.
• Increase the heat to medium, add the chicken and cook, turning once, until golden brown, 8-10 minutes.
• Stir in 1 only cup of coconut milk, 1 1/4 cups of water and the salt.
• Simmer, stirring occasionally, until chicken is tender, 40-50 minutes.
• Add the remaining coconut milk; cook for 2 minutes.
• Let cool for 15 minutes before serving with rice, leaving the cinnamon sticks behind.

INDONESIAN CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Chop onions and grate ginger.
• Slice meat thinly.
• Heat half the oil in a heavy frying pan.
• Brown meat and set aside.
• Heat remaining oil in pan and add onion, ginger and curry powder.
• Fry for a few minutes, stirring.
• Return meat to pan and season to taste.
• Add coconut milk, water and tomato paste.
• Bring to the boil and simmer covered for 10 minutes.
• Uncover curry and simmer for a further ten minutes.
• Serve with rice.
• If you feel like it, stir through some chilli flakes.