Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, malay chicken rendang. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Malay Chicken Rendang is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Malay Chicken Rendang is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Here I have just the perfect chicken rendang recipe for you. Rendang originated from Indonesia but they are very popular and well loved by many in Malaysia. Chicken rendang is slow cooked and stewed in the rendang sauce and my chicken rendang recipe yields flavorful and tender chicken, with complex structure of flavors, with the intense aroma of the exotic spices.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook malay chicken rendang using 23 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Malay Chicken Rendang:
- Make ready 350 g chicken meat (deboned, skinless)
- Get 4 cloves (40 g) shallots
- Get 3 cloves (25 g) garlic
- Take 8 dried chilies or 4 live chilies
- Take 1 inch (20 g) turmeric root
- Get 1 inch (20 g) galangal
- Get 1 inch (20 g) ginger
- Take 1 stick (20 g) lemongrass
- Get 1 tsp cumin powder
- Take 1 tsp coriander powder
- Take 1 tsp fennel powder
- Prepare 1 tsp fenugreek
- Get 2 star anise
- Get 1 cinnamon stick
- Prepare 3 cardamom pods
- Prepare 1 Tbsp palm sugar
- Prepare 3 Tbsp coconut paste (kerisik)
- Prepare 2 turmeric leaves (sliced finely)
- Prepare 3 kaffir lime leaves
- Make ready 2 tamarind slices (asam keping)
- Get 1 cup thick coconut milk
- Get 3 Tbsp cooking oil
- Take Salt to taste (1 tsp)
I made this lovely chicken rendang lighter by using less amount of coconut milk and it taste wonderful just the same 🙂. Chicken Rendang, A Versatile Dish and The Perfect Nasi Lemak Accompaniment. Traditional Malaysian Chicken Rendang is also a dish that is extremely versatile. You can serve this flavourful rendang dish with steamed white or saffron rice, ketupat (a compressed rice cake) or lemang (glutinous rice cooked in bamboo tubes) and thick slices of bread.
Steps to make Malay Chicken Rendang:
- Blend shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal, lemongrass, chilis, turmeric root into paste.
- Heat oil in wok and fry cinnamon, cardamom, star anise, cumin, fenugreek, coriander and fennel until fragrant. Then add in the blended paste and cook until color has darken and the oil separates.
- Add chicken and cook well. Next add the coconut milk, kaffir lime leaves, tamarind slices, turmeric leaves and palm sugar. Mix well and cook until the liquid thickens but not yet dry. Then add coconut paste and cook until desired consistency or until dry. Add salt to taste.
The chicken rendang would be succulent and tender. What to serve with chicken rendang. Serve this with Nasi Lemak, the popular Malaysian dish, white rice or noodles. Other dishes which would pair well with rendang are acar awak, fish in asam curry and teh tarik. To many, cooking rendang seems daunting and complicated.
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