{"id":1140,"date":"2020-07-15T21:30:21","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T09:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2020-07-21T13:10:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T01:10:51","slug":"massaman-chicken-curry-including-paste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/?p=1140","title":{"rendered":"Massaman Chicken Curry &#8211; Including Paste"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massaman Curry \u2013 Chicken or Beef<\/p>\n<p>150 mls Coconut Milk<br \/>\n100 grams Massaman Curry Paste (Make your own as below or buy a jar)<br \/>\n500 grams Chicken Thighs (I took the skin off, left bone in, and browned the thighs in a pan before use)<br \/>\n1 Onion, medium size, cut into wedges<br \/>\n150 grams Potato, cut into 3cm cubes.<br \/>\n5 Green Cardamom Pods<br \/>\n1 Piece Cinnamon Stick (about 5cm)<br \/>\n2 Bay Leaves<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Tamarind Pulp<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Palm Sugar<br \/>\n2 Tablespoons Fish Sauce<br \/>\n50 grams Peanuts or Cashew nuts lightly roasted<\/p>\n<p>1.\t Heat up half of the coconut milk.  Saute until the coconut oil separates out from the solid.<\/p>\n<p>2.\t Add the curry paste and saute it on low heat until it turns fragrant.  Stir constantly to keep the mixture from sticking<\/p>\n<p>3.\t Add the chicken into this and mix well with the curry paste.<\/p>\n<p>4.\t Add the Fish sauce, Palm Sugar and Tamarind Water.  Taste and adjust the flavour if necessary.  Massaman curry should be slightly sweet with a very subtle sour note from the Tamarind.<\/p>\n<p>5.\t Add the Cardamom pods, cinnamon stick and bay leaves.<\/p>\n<p>6.\t Add the rest of the coconut milk into the curry paste and bring it to boil.  Reduce heat and simmer for 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>7.\t Add the potatoes and onions.  Simmer for another 20 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>8.\t Add the roasted nuts to serve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>Simmer on low heat, to get the meat tender<\/p>\n<p>Add hot water if necessary before adding the potatoes and onions<\/p>\n<p>The taste develops more the next day<\/p>\n<p>I took the cardamom pods out when mixture was all cooked.<\/p>\n<p>I took the meat off the bones at the end, and added all the meat back in to the curry<\/p>\n<p>Above recipe x 5 works well with the paste below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Massaman Curry Paste<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>1 Tablespoon Coriander Seeds<br \/>\n1 teaspoon Cumin Seeds<br \/>\n10 red small chilies or 3 large ones &#8211; Remove the seeds and inner bits of the dried chilies<br \/>\n4 Green Cardamom Pods<\/p>\n<p>120 grams of Shallots, finely chopped (about 3)<br \/>\n30 grams of Garlic, finely chopped<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Ginger, finely grated (Mix this with 1\/4 teaspoon Lemon Juice) (Replacement for Galangal)<\/p>\n<p>\u00bd teaspoon Nutmeg<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon Cinnamon<br \/>\n\u00bd teaspoon Cloves<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Kaffir Lime Leaves, finely chopped<br \/>\n1 teaspoon ground white pepper<br \/>\n1 teaspoon Salt<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Fish Sauce<br \/>\n100 mls Vegetable Oil<\/p>\n<p>1.  Roast together Until Fragrant: Coriander Seeds, Cumin Seeds, Chilli and Cardamom Pods<\/p>\n<p>1 (a)  If you have spice grinder or Mortar &#038; Pestle, I think it is best if ground up before adding to the other mix.<br \/>\nI ground mine in Mortar &#038; Pestle once they were roasted<\/p>\n<p>2.  Roast together Until Brown: Shallots, Garlic, Ginger (with lemon juice)<\/p>\n<p>3.  Add your two mixes above into a container that you can use your stick mixer in, or use a food processor.  Then add Nutmeg, Cinnamon, cloves, Kaffir Lime Leaves, white pepper, salt, fish sauce, and oil<\/p>\n<p>Note:  I doubled the ingredients of paste. Doubled makes around  2 cups of paste (500 grams).  Freezes well<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_185338.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_185338-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20200714_185338\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1144\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_185338-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_185338-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_191415.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_191415-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"20200714_191415\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_191415-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/20200714_191415-512x288.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massaman Curry \u2013 Chicken or Beef 150 mls Coconut Milk 100 grams Massaman Curry Paste (Make your own as below or buy a jar) 500 grams Chicken Thighs (I took the skin off, left bone in, and browned the thighs in a pan before use) 1 Onion, medium size, cut into wedges 150 grams Potato,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main_courses_meat","wpcat-9-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1155,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/1155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debskitchen.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}