Ayam Masak Merah (Chicken in Red Chilli Sauce)

There are different styles of cooking this. Different people might use tomato puree, boh chilli, whatever. Here goes...

Ingredients (for 3 pax)

1) 1/2 chicken - cut into pieces
2) Oil - 1 cup
3) Dried chilli (blended) - 2 1/2 cup
4) Chilli & tomato sauce - both 1/2 cup
5) 3 pieces lemon grass
6) Shallots - 6 pieces
7) Ginger - 1.5cm
8) Garlic - 4 cloves
9) Tumeric powder
10) Salt to taste
11) Water - 1/2 cup

Initial preparation

1) Items 5 to 8 are blended together.
2) Mix chicken with tumeric powder and salt, enough to cover the chickens cut.
3) Fry chicken in heated oil until brown.

Further instruction  

1) Heat some oil. Saute blended dried chilli with blended items 5 to 8.
2) Pour in fried chicken, tomato and chilli sauce, and some water. Salt to taste.

Ready to serve!!!

Sorry for the bad presentation!!! trust me, it looks good...lol

Masak Lemak Cili Api

Ok so this is our (Me + Masterchef Izah) first attempt to do Masak Lemak Cili Api (Coconut Gravy using Small Green Chilly Dish). We are using Kerang (cockles). Common use for this dish includes chicken, fish, meat, escargot, prawn, for your taste.

Ingredients (for 6 pax)
1) 1 whole chicken - cut into pieces
2) Coconut milk from 1 coconut
3) 1.5 cm tumeric
4) 6 pieces shallots
5) 3 lemon grass - minced
6) 6 small fresh green chillies (cili padi)
7) Salt to taste
8) Tamarind water - 1 glass

Instruction
1) Blend items 3), 4) 6)
2) Stir together chicken, coconut milk and blended items in a pot using average fire
3) Put in cockles or anything as per ur taste
4) Put in minced lemon grass and salt to taste
5) Stir occassionally to avoid coconut milk from breaking

The result???

Yummy!

Asam Pedas Muar

Weeee!!! I love cooking. It is a great stress reliever. What better way to spend the weekend other than cooking with moi cousin, Izah.

What is Muar, you may ask?

Muar is a small town situated in Johor (one of the 13 states in Malaysia). For more info, visit this website About Malaysia ok. Or if you still dunno, just GOOGLE k...

Hence, here's the result....

Asam Pedas Muar Ayam

So how to do it?

Basically if you're not a spicy food lover, DO NOT, i repeat, DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!!! Since Asam Pedas stands for "Spicy & Sour" hahahaha.....

Anyway, back to the ingredients (for 6 pax)...

1) Cili kering (dried chili)

2) 1 big cup of oil / 1 cawan besar minyak

3) Ayam seekor dicincang (1 whole chicken, cut into pieces) - you can opt for fish/meat too

4) Garlic (5 cloves) /Bawang putih (5 biji)

5) Ginger 1.5cm /Halia (setengah ibu jari)

6) Tumeric 1.5cm /Kunyit (setengah ibu jari)

7) Shrimp paste a pinch /Belacan (secubit)

8) 1 glass of tamarind water/Air asam jawa (segelas besar)

9) 1 weave of "daun kesom" (sorry I dunno what's this in English, pls google)

10) Shallots (6 pieces)/bawang merah (6 biji)

11) Salt to taste / Garam secukup rasa

Items to blend:

1) Dried chilli.....Once blended with water, put aside 

2) Blend garlic, ginger, tumeric, shrimp paste, red onion....Once blended with water, put aside

Items to saute: 

1) Heat 1 big cup of oil

2) Saute 2 1/2 cups of dried chilli into the oil

3) Put in together items to blend no (2)

4) Put in the cut chicken

5) Put in together tamarind water

6) Stir and leave it for half an hour, until chicken is properly cooked using medium fire

7) Put in daun kesom leaves

8) Salt to taste

It's ready!!! Do enjoy your Malaysian Meal at your own risk....:)