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.

OPOR AYAM (INDONESIAN CHICKEN CURRY)

Steps:

• In a dry skillet over medium-high heat, toast the coriander seeds for 2 to 3 minutes. Let cool, then grind in a spice grinder.
• In a large sauté pan, heat 2 tablespoons of the coconut oil over medium heat. Add the shallots and a generous pinch of salt and cook, stirring often, until browned, about 10 minutes. Remove shallots to a food processor and set aside. Add the garlic cloves and candlenuts to the same pan and cook, stirring constantly to prevent burning, until deep golden brown, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the garlic and candlenuts to the shallots in the food processor along with the kaempferia galanga root, white pepper and 2 tablespoons water; purée into a paste.
• Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon coconut oil in the sauté pan over medium heat and add the ginger, galangal, lemongrass, salam leaves and lime leaves, scrunching the lime leaves in your hands as you drop them into the pot. Allow to cook until the ingredients start to smell less intense and raw, stirring occasionally, 5 to 7 minutes.
• Stir the ground coriander seeds, shallot paste mixture and tomato into the pan. Reduce the heat to low and slowly stir in the coconut milk, a little at a time, to keep the sauce from breaking. When all the coconut milk is incorporated and the mixture is gently simmering, add the chicken stock. Nestle the chicken into the pan and spoon some of the sauce over the top. Cover and cook on low heat for about 40 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked through and the dish is aromatic. You may have to adjust the heat to keep the mixture at a gentle simmer. (Do not boil.) Season to taste with salt. Before serving, remove the galangal, ginger, lemongrass, salam and makrut leaves. Serve with rice.

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.