Chicken Curry (Malay Style)

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken (cut into 12 pieces)
• ½ cup cooking oil
• 2 tea spoon of clarified butter
• 3 tea spoon of meat curry powder
• 1 tea spoon of cumin powder
• 1 tea spoon of coriander powder
• 1 tea spoon of chilly powder
• 2 tea spoon of kerisik (toasted, grounded coconut paste)
• 2 cups of cocnut milk
• 5 potatoes
• 3 tomatoes
• 3 green chillies
• Salt

To be Blended:

• 8 onions diced
• 4 cloves of garlic diced
• 3 cm ginger

Ingredients to be pre- fry (tumis):

• 6 onions diced
• 4 cloves of garlic diced
• 3 cm ginger
• 1 springs of curry leaves
• 6 cm cinnamon
• 5 cloves
• 3 star anises
• 5 cardamons
• ½ tea spoon of cumin powder

Preparation Method:

• Heat up the cooking oil and put in all the ingredients which are to be pre-fired.Stir well while frying until the aroma comes out.
• Put in the curry powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, chilly powder & blended ingredients. Stir well until the oil seems to be at the edge of the mixture.
• put in the cleaned chicken with some water. Stir well until chicken becomes tender.
• Pour in coconut milk, potatoes, kerisik and salt & let the mixture sizzle. When the potatoes already softened, put in tomatoes, green chillies.
• Finally stir again and let the mixture sizzle before serving.