Indonesian Cuisine

Kari ayam

Cuisine: Indonesian Created by Alina Lucas

Ingredients

1.5kg chicken thigh fillet, cut into bite size pieces
½ kg potatoes, peeled and quartered
100g fresh red medium chillies, seeded
100g shallots, peeled and roughly chopped
25g garlic cloves, peeled
5 candlenuts
40g fresh turmeric, sliced
15g ginger, sliced
2 tbsp vegetable oil, plus extra for frying the curry paste
2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
25g galangal, roughly chopped
1 litre coconut milk
2 tsp ground cumin seeds
2 tsp dried ground coriander
1 tsp fennel seeds, roasted, then ground
1 cinnamon quill
1 whole nutmeg, crushed
5 cloves
15g shrimp paste, roasted and crushed
1 tbsp salt
4 tbsp sugar

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Preparation

To make curry paste, blend chillies, shallots, garlic, candlenuts and turmeric with oil until smooth.

In a hot pan, heat a little vegetable oil and fry curry paste until it darkens in colour.

Add lemongrass, galangal and coconut milk and then cumin, coriander, fennel, cinnamon, crushed nutmeg, cloves and shrimp paste.

Add salt and sugar.

Bring to boil then add chicken and potatoes. Simmer gently until chicken and potatoes are tender. If the sauce is too thick, dilute with a little water.

Garnish with a sprinkle of fried shallots and serve.

Indonesian Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 71 Indonesian Restaurants.

Restaurant		Suburb
1.	Abell's Kopi Tiam	Manuka
2.	Vanidol's	North Hobart
3.	Sparrow	Highgate
4.	Bali Grill	Rosalie
5.	Green Papaya	East Brisbane
6.	Warung Agus	West Melbourne
7.	Huong Huong	Marrickville
8.	Ayam Goreng 99	Kingsford
9.	Slamet's Indonesian Restaurant	North Narrabeen
10.	Buddha Belly Cafe	Terrey Hills

16 Aug 2011 10:18 AEST

martinzivic

roleystone

yumo

Great recipe , i have cooked it many times , good even frozen a few weeks later ,for those worried about the wieghts of ingredients dont stress , experiment , you cant really use too much of anything ,if the chilli is too much add a little more coconut milk , chuck in a bit of this bit of that ,thats what cooking is all about :-)

17 Dec 2010 10:55 AEST

RedCap

Neutral Bay

Enak Sekali

Excellent! This is an incredibly tasty dish that is surprisingly easy to prepare (although the preparation can take a while). Also all of the ingredients can be bought at Woolies with the exception of Candlenuts, Shrimp Paste (Balacan), Frech Tumeric and Galangal, which can all be bought at your local Asian supermarket. It seems like a lot of chicken but I've found it feeds about 6 people comfortably. I only use 800mL of coconut milk rather than 1L and find that is sufficient.

08 Aug 2010 07:57 AEST

Edward Hodge

Gungahlin ACT

Awesome

This is amazing. EPIC!

14 Dec 2009 11:23 AEST

martin

roleystone

magic

the flavours and aroma of this curry are to die for ,anyone who is worried about how much 25 grams of garlic is ect , in my experience you cant go wrong by adding too much of any these herbs, i always guess and never failed so far ..i have cooked this curry many times and it freezes well to

05 Nov 2009 01:51 AEST

Paula

Mackay, QLD

Great Curry!

Despite the tiny bit of fiddling around with the measurements (digital scales make it a breeze!) don't listen to those belly achers below. This curry is one of the nicest i have made in a long time, it is different to the stock standard Thai curries that are out there everywhere! The Indonesian influence adds a certain element of suprise. This is a Winner & I will be making this again & again!

07 Aug 2009 05:02 AEST

Kate van Schaik

Blackheath

measurements?

Didn't anyone else find the measurements difficult and unwieldy here? Why say 25g of garlic cloves, or 100g of chillis when you could just say the number needed? Also this doesn't say how many it feeds - I presume 1.5 kg of chicken feeds a lot of people for a curry, so to try and halve it with these gram measurements is also difficult. I think someone needs to rewrite this and make clear how many it is for...it sounds great as a dish.

04 Jun 2009 03:00 AEST

Brad Taylor

Kings Meadows TAS

Excellent Dish

This recipe did not mention where to use the ginger - I assumed it was in the curry paste (First bit of the preparation). Alina - an excellent dish - scores 4 and a half stars at our place (no dish has ever scored 5) very popular. It was a little hard to find some of the ingredients - but it was well and truly worth it. It has a great balance of flavours - I was worried that it might be too hot. But it turned out great. Will be one of the family favourites! Well done, Brad

18 May 2009 11:51 AEST

Idam Halawa

Surfer Paradise

Recepie

Its really yummy....easy and so tasty...... I love it, its even more tasty after a day later.... Love it..love it....love it,

10 Nov 2008 03:37 AEST

Lisa

Girrawheen, WA

Yummy

This is a great recipe and the instructions are good, although watch they you don't miss out the ginger - its in the ingredients but not the recipe, but according to the video it should be blended as part of the curry paste.

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