Simple chicken curry with potatoes

On Sunday morning at the fresh market, I bought some string hoppers or putu mayam that were freshly made on the spot.  They were packed with some brown sugar and grated coconut, but I was thinking to eat them with some chicken curry.  So here's a simple recipe for one.

Ingredients:
2 chicken whole leg - cut into pieces, marinated with 1 tsp salt, 1 tbs meat curry powder and 1/2 tsp chilli powder
1 medium potato (I used Russet) - skin peeled then cut into pieces, soaked a while in some salt water and drained dry
1 small red onion - skin peeled and chopped
2 cloves garlic - skin peeled and chopped


to be made into paste:
25g meat curry powder
1 tsp chilli powder
3 tbs water


1 cup oil
3 cups water

marinated chicken

potatoes

meat curry powder+chilli powder

the curry paste

chopped onion and garlic

Method:

1. Heat up wok under medium small fire and pour in the cooking oil.

2. When the oil is hot, put in the potatoes and fry until light brown.

3. Lower the fire and scoop up the oil until about 1/3 cup remains.

4. Fry the chopped onion and garlic until aromatic.

5. Add in the curry paste and fry for a while before adding in the chicken.  Fry for a while until the chicken meat changes colour.

6. Pour in the 3 cups of water, stir well and add in the potatoes.

7. Keep the fire medium and simmer until the chicken is cooked, the potatoes are soft and the gravy is reduced to the right consistency.

8. Turn off the fire and dish up and serve.

Note:

For extra aroma, you may add 2 crushed lemongrass stalks and few sprigs of curry leaves when sauteing the chopped onion and garlic.  You may also add 2-3 kaffir lime leaves too.

For extra flavour, you may add 1/3 cup of coconut milk towards the end of cooking few minutes before turning off the fire.

curry chicken also goes well with white rice and bread~

By the way, these are string hoppers:

they taste similar to rice vermicelli

Download the recipe in pdf  here

p/s: I made fish head curry as well, will share the recipe next time~