Chicken Curry Laksa Recipe, How To Cook The Perfect Laksa Recipe Food The Guardian

Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium high.

An easy chicken curry recipe. Add the coconut milk stock and water and bring to the boil. Laksa is a coconut based curry soup not too spicy with a nice tomato base. For the laksa soup chicken stock 1 litres shop bought or see above coconut milk 2 x 400g tins chaokoh brand ideally salt 2 tbsp or less to taste good quality palm sugar 90g or dark brown.

A balance of sweet sour salty and spicy elements popular. It can be made with chicken breast and boneless thigh poached per recipe and sliced but the broth flavour isnt quite as good. Add a few handfuls baby leaf spinach 200ml coconut milk and the juice of 2 limes.

Heat the oil in a wok over medium heat. Place on the hot griddle pan turning after 3 or 4 minutes until nicely charred and cooked through. On a large sheet of greaseproof paper toss the chicken with sea salt black pepper and the five spice.

Stir in 2 tbsp fish sauce 1 tbsp soft brown sugar and simmer for 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked. Traditionally made with rice noodles prawns chicken tofu puffs and fish balls this malaysian curry laksa is not a dish of subtlety. Place sprouts in broth and cook for 60 secs.

Combine linghams malaysian laksa curry paste water and coconut cream bring to the boil. The truth is there are many different types of laksa but the two dominant ones are curry laksa as in this recipe and asam laksa. Chicken i love making this with drumsticks or bone in skin on thighs because the flesh that falls off the bone looks and tastes like the chicken in laksa that is served at proper malaysian joints.

Remove and shred strips. Add 2 lemongrass stalks finely chopped 2 3 chicken breasts sliced 600ml chicken stock and bring to a simmer. Also the chicken skin adds richness to the broth.

Add the laksa paste and cook stirring for 68 minutes or until fragrant. To most people outside of malaysia and singapore laksa generally means curry laksa in a curry and coconut milk soup base. You can add a variety of ingredients to your laksa base different noodles like vermicelli or hokkien are a perfect addition.

Carefully remove the chicken and shred using 2 forks. Boil chicken for 2 mins or until cooked. For protein you can use chicken fish prawns mussels tofu depending on your preference or availability.

Fold over the paper then bash and flatten the chicken to 15cm thick with a rolling pin. Cook noodles as per pack instructions divide into 2 bowls and top with the chicken.