Thai Cuisine: Spicy Thai Chicken Curry, The Recipe

Today I was invited to eat at my Thai friend's house, Sao, who prepared a really good and exceptionally spicy dish for me: chicken with spicy Thai curry. And as you can see in the photos there was also a plate of fried anchovies, as a side dish.

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Ingredients

– 1 whole chicken (preferably a hen), cleaned and cut into pieces;
– 5 cloves of garlic;
– 2 shallots;
– 1/4 onion;
– 6 fresh chili peppers;
– 2 lemongrass plants, cut into small pieces;
– 5 lemon leaves;
– Galangal: half a small tuber, cut into slices (if you don't know what it is, go here)
– Spices: salt, monosodium glutamate, sugar, shrimp paste, fish sauce, pepper (I can only find some spices in Genoa).
– Obviously some white rice (preferably the sticky kind).

Preparation

First, cook the rice in the classic Asian rice cooker.
Then we prepare the chicken: take all the vegetables (garlic, red onion, shallots, fresh chili pepper, lemongrass) and put them in a blender and grind it with water.
Then put the mixture in a saucepan and add about 2 liters of water then add the chicken and the seasoning: 1 tablespoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of MSG, 1 teaspoon of sugar, 1.5 tablespoons of shrimp paste, add the galangal and lemon leaves. Cook until the mixture comes to a boil, lower the heat and cook for another 30 minutes until the meat is tender, then add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce and season to taste, add pepper and finish the dish.

Although curry powder is not added in Thailand, spicy chicken cooked with lots of spices is called Thai-style “chicken curry.”

The chicken after cooking is still hard (because we used chicken meat) but if you want the meat to be tender you can cook it longer. It is extremely spicy, salty and scented with lemon leaves, lemongrass and galangal, this dish is eaten on extremely cold days because it warms and cheers.

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