Malaysian Food - Spicy Fried Chicken / Ayam Goreng Berempah

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Fried chicken is one dish you find all over the world but every country has its own unique fried chicken recipe. For Malaysia it is spicy fried chicken (Ayam Goreng Berempah). This recipe is from the celebrity chef/ actress Sheila Rusly

Malaysian Food – Spicy Fried Chicken / Ayam Goreng Berempah

RECIPE

Ingredients

1 chicken – cut into 8 – 12 pieces

3 teaspoons of fish curry powder

3 teaspoons of turmeric powder

4 shallots

6 lemon grass – cut into 1 – 3 cm in length

2 pieces of galangal – cut into 1 – 3 cm

5 teaspoons of chili paste

2 sprigs of curry leaves

5 dried chilies – cut into 3

1 teaspoon of chicken flavoring or salt

Oil for deep frying

Directions

1. Coarsely pound the shallots, galangal and lemon grass
2. Add in the curry powder, turmeric powder, the pounded ingredients, the flavoring/salt and the chili paste on the chicken. Mix until all the pieces are well coated
3. Marinate or leave over-night in the fridge
4. Before frying, remove as much as possible the marinade from the chicken pieces
5. Heat the oil, and fry the chicken until brown
6. Continuously remove the crumbs so that it will not get burnt
7. Fry the excess marinade, when it is slightly brown add in the dried chilies and the curry leaves
8. Remove and drain the oil
9. When serving, sprinkle the marinade crumbs on the chicken

Recipe adapted from Sheila Rusly's facebook page