Kapitan chicken curry

A hot, pungent, creamy curry perfect for a Saturday night in and streets ahead of your local takeaway.

Category: Main Dish

Cuisine: Indian

Ready in 24 hours
by knooks

Ingredients

4 chicken legs skin on

1 tbsp ground turmeric

1 tsp salt or to taste

4 tbsp vegetable oil

2 onions, sliced

400 ml/14oz thick coconut milk

4-6 young lime leaves finely shredded

1 tbsp palm sugar (or brown sugar)

2 tbsp freshly squeezed lime juice

350 g/13oz shallots roughly chopped

4 garlic cloves

1 tbsp chopped fresh root ginger

1 small ginger flower chopped (optional, available from some specialist Asian grocers)

1 tsp chopped galangal

1 tsp chopped turmeric root

4-6 candlenuts or macadamia nuts

2 stalks lemongrass tough outer leaves removed, soft inner stem roughly chopped

2 fresh red chillies roughly chopped

1 dried red chilli broken up

1 tsp blachan (shrimp paste) lightly fried until fragrant

vegetable oil for deep frying

10 shallots, sliced

mint leaves

1 red chilli sliced

1 cucumber, sliced

steamed rice to serve


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