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[JustinofOz]

Burmese Chicken Curry

1 kg chicken drumsticks or thighs
2 large onions, roughly chopped
3 large cloves garlic, peeled
5 cm piece ginger, peeled
2 tablespoons peanut oil (Olive oil will do as well)
½ teaspoon shrimp paste or 3 tablespoons fish sauce
1 teaspoon salt
2 cups canned coconut milk
1 teaspoon chilli powder

Wash the chicken and dry with paper towelling. Place onion, garlic and ginger in a food processor and process until smooth. Add a little water, if necessary.
Heat the oil in a pan and add the onion mixture. Add the shrimp paste or fish sauce and cook over a high heat for five minutes, stirring. Add chicken and cook over a medium heat and turn until brown.
Add the coconut milk, chili powder and salt. Bring to the boil and simmer, covered, for 30 minutes. Stir occasionally. Remove cover and cook for 15 minutes or until chicken is tender.

Serve with noodles or rice

[Maggie]

ohhhh this looks guid! ah love a nice wee curry, thanks justin!!

[JustinofOz]

You're welcome Maggie, I'm rarely short of a recipe.

[JustinofOz]

If you like curries Maggie, you might like to save yourself some money and make your own.

Basic Masala
Heat 1 tblspns ghee. Add 1 teaspn whole cumin seed. Brown cumin seed and 1 teaspn. crushed chilis. Cook until browned. Ready for use.

Garam Masala
1 tblspns ground cloves, 2 tblspns cinnamon, 1 tblspns ground coriander, 1 tblspns ground ginger, 1 tblspns ground nutmeg, 2 tblspns ground cumin.

Seafood curry powder
This curry powder can be used for all types of seafood and vegetable curries, fish, prawn, scallops and eggplant are all possibilities
2 1/4 cups coriander seeds
1 tblspns plus 2 teaspn fennel seeds
1/3 cup cumin seeds
1 and ½ teaspns fenugreek
1 tblspns black peppercorns
1/3 cup whole dried red chiles
1and ½ tblspns turmeric powder

In a dry pan, gently fry, one at a time, the coriander, fennel, cumin, fenugreek, peppercorns and the whole chiles.
Fry the chiles until they are dark brown and crispy. Cool and
break the chiles into pieces. Place the chiles in a spice or
coffee grinder with the seeds and process to a fine powder. Add the turmeric powder and mix well. Store the powder in airtight containers when it is completely cool.

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