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Indonesian Chicken Curry
Indonesian Chicken Curry
If you’ve never tried Indonesian food before, this is where you should start. This chicken curry is a marriage between Thai and Indian cuisine. The curry sauce will make you want to carry around a mug of it to drink, it’s so good. While there are a ton of ingredients, most of them get processed into the curry paste. You pretty much sauté the curry paste with the cinnamon sticks, lime leaves, and lemongrass. Brown the chicken in the curry paste and simmer in coconut milk and chicken stock. Serve the curry with steamed rice.
Ingredients
Curry Paste
- 2 tsp ground coriander
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp nutmeg
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 1/8 tsp ground cloves
- 4 dried red chilies
- 2 green chilies
- 1/4 cup cashews
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 large shallot minced
- 3 tbsp ginger minced
Chicken Curry
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 5 lime leaves
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- 3 stalks lemongrass
- 3 lbs whole chicken legs drums cut in 2; thighs cut in 3
- 2 cups coconut milk
- 1 cup chicken stock
- 4 tbsp fish sauce
Instructions
- Combine all of the curry paste ingredients.
- Using an immersion blender, blend until a smooth paste is formed. Set aside.
- Heat up cooking oil in a large sauté pan over medium high heat. Sauté the lime leaves, cinnamon sticks, and lemongrass for 1 minute.
- Add in the curry paste and cook for 2 minutes.
- Add in the chicken. Coat in the curry paste and brown for 5-6 minutes.
- Pour in 1 cup of coconut milk and the chicken stock. Bring to a boil. Cover. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes.
- Stir in the rest of the coconut milk and fish sauce.
Kwe Tiau Radna (Thai Stir Fried Gravy Noodles)
Kwe Tiau Radna (Thai Stir Fried Gravy Noodles)
Radna is a Thai-style gravy noodle dish that’s not as well known as pad thai or pad see ewe, but is equally just as good. Rice noodles are stir fried then topped with a meat gravy with gai lan. You can use beef, pork, or chicken as your protein. Make sure to use the right stock according the meat you use. My favorite part of this fish is the chili vinegar sauce that adds a sweet/sour/spiciness to the dish.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
- 1 lb dried flat rice noodles
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 3 tbsp garlic minced
- 1 lb boneless skinless chicken thighs thinly sliced
- 1 tsp sugar
- 1 lb gai lan
- 1 tbsp fermented soybean paste
- 1 tbsp soy sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 1/2 tbsp rice vinegar
- 1 1/4 cup chicken stock
- 1 tbsp cornstarch
- 3 tbsp water
- black and white pepper to taste
Chili Vinegar Sauce
- 1/2 cup rice vinegar
- 3 tbsp sugar
- 1 bird’s eye chili thinly sliced
Instructions
- Mix together the rice vinegar, sugar, and birds eye chilies. Set aside.
- Soak the rice noodles in hot water for 30 minutes.
- Heat up 2 tbsp of cooking oil in a large sauté pan or wok over high heat. Sauté the rice noodles for 3-4 minutes in 2 batches. Set them aside.
- Add in the rest of the cooking oil. Sauté the garlic for a minute.
- Toss in the chicken. Season with the sugar. Sauté for 5 minutes until the chicken is cooked through.
- Add in the gai lan. Stir fry for 2 minutes.
- Add in the soybean paste, soy sauce, fish sauce, rice vinegar, and chicken stock. Bring to a simmer.
- Make a slurry with the cornstarch and water. Stir that into the sauce and allow to thicken.
Beef Pho
Beef Pho
Pho is the national dish of Vietnam. It can be traced back to the early 1900’s; culturally influenced by the French’s introduction of beef, which is the main flavor component. Today, there seems to be a never ending plethora of Vietnamese restaurants with pho being the specialty.Pho stock is made by roasting beef bones and whole onions, then simmering in a large stock pot of water with star anise, ginger, cinnamon stick, sugar, and salt. Some recipes for the stock will include a small stewing hen as part of the boil. The stock is simmered for at least 4 hours, with some recipes taking 24 hours. Then the stock is strained and ready to serve.Beef is the main protein in pho. The beef is always raw, sliced paper thin, and is cooked when boiling stock is ladled over. Many cuts of beef can be used including flank, eye of round, brisket, and ribeye. Vietnamese love texture, so there are varieties of pho that include tripe and tendons. Other than beef, pho contains rice noodles, bean sprouts, Thai basil, cilantro, green onions, hoisin sauce, fish sauce, and is served with lime wedges; just to name a few ingredients.
Servings: 4
Ingredients
Pho Stock
- 5 lbs beef bones femur and neck
- 2 large onions cut in half
- 10 star anise
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 large ginger split in half
- 2 tbsp sugar
- 1 tbsp salt
- 6 quarts water
Beef Pho
- 14 oz rice stick noodles prepared according to package directions
- 1 lb beef ribeye sliced paper thin
- Asian style beef meatballs sliced
- 2 cups bean sprouts blanched for 30 seconds
- Thai basil
- cilantro
- green onions chopped
- lime wedges
- hoisin sauce
- fish sauce
- sriracha
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place the beef bones and halved onions on a baking sheet.
- Roast for 45 minutes. Set aside.
- Dry toast the star anise in a small skillet over medium heat for 3 minutes.
- Place the star anise, cinnamon stick, and halved ginger in a large pot of water; about 6 quarts. Bring to a boil.
- Add in the roasted beef bones, onions, sugar, and salt.
- Simmer over medium heat for at least 4 hours.
- Strain the pho stock. Return to the pot and bring to a boil.
Pho Assembly
- Assemble the basil, cilantro, green onions, bean sprouts, lime wedges, and hoisin sauce on a plate.
- Place 1 portion of rice noodles in the bottom of a large soup bowl. Place the sliced ribeye and meatballs on top of the noodles.
- Ladle the boiling stock over the beef and noodles.
