14. Chicken Kurma

Ingredients: (Serves 3)
½ chicken, cut into 6 parts
4 shallots
2 garlic
1 inch ginger
1 star anise, 2 cloves and 1 small cinnamon stalk
½ onion, cubed
½ onion, sliced
1 small packet of ADABI kurma powder
1 cup of warm water
Coconut milk from 1/2 coconut
2 potatoes, cubed
½ carrot, quartered
1 tomato, wedged
1 red chilli, sliced diagonally
2 green chillies, sliced diagonally
Few sprigs of coriander leaf, parsley and spring onion, cut into 3cm length
3 tbsp oil
1 tbsp ghee
Salt and sugar to taste

Method:

1. Pound shallots, garlic and ginger using pestle and mortar. Put aside. In a bowl, mix the kurma powder with 1 cup of water and 1 tsp of the pounded ingredient. Stir well
2. Heat oil and ghee in a pot. Saute the remaining pounded ingredients with cubed onion, star anise, clove and cinnamon until fragrant
3. Pour the kurma mix and stir. When the oil layer surfaces above the mix (pecah minyak), put in the chicken and stir
4. Stir for about 5 minutes (until pecah minyak again), add coconut milk, salt and sugar.When it starts to boil, add in potatoes, sliced onion and carrot
5. When it's almost cooked, put in the tomato, chillies, coriander leaf,spring onion and parsley. Stir well until the meat is tender. Serve with hot rice or bread :-D
   

Cooking up a storm!

Will prepare lunch tomorrow for husband dearest and parents. Chicken kurma, fried fish, stir fry mix vege and salted radish with eggs are on the menu. Yum! :)

13. Sambal Sotong

'Cili boh' or chilli paste surely gives a zing to this dish! (Serves 2)

Ingredients:
6 pieces of medium-sized squids
1/2 cup of water
3 shallots
1 garlic
1 tsp prawn paste
1 piece of asam keping (dried slice of tamarind fruit)
1 onion
2 tsp of chilli paste
3 tsp of oil
Salt and sugar to taste

Method:

1. Clean the squid by removing the ink sac, teeth and soft bone. Boil them in a pot with 1/2 cup of water under medium heat for 5 minutes. Put aside to allow them to cool
2. Pound the shallots, garlic and prawn paste using pestle and mortar
3. Heat the oil in a wok. Add the pounded ingredients, chilli paste and asam keping. Stir well until it browns
4. Add in the boiled squid (together with the squid broth), julienned onion, salt and sugar. Fry for another 5 minutes. Enjoy!