Spiced Chicken with Coconut Milk
A delicious traditional Malaysian roasted spiced chicken with coconut milk and a sweet touch to it. This wonderful chicken is known as ayam percik.
Servings: 5 people
Ingredients
- ½ red onion
- 10 dried chillies , cut, soaked until soft and drained
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 thumb sized ginger
- 1 thumb sized galangal
- 1 thumb sized shrimp paste
- 2 lemongrass
- 8 cashew nuts
- 5 skinless bone-in chicken thighs , around 1.5 lb (700 gr)
- 1 tablespoon coriander powder
- ½ tablespoon fennel powder
- 2 teaspoon turmeric powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoon coconut sugar , or any sugar of your choice
- 1 cup coconut milk (250 ml)
- 1 teaspoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Blend onion, garlic, chillies, lemongrass, cashew nuts, ginger and galangal into a fine paste. Set aside.
- Slit the chicken pieces here and there. Place them in a bowl and add in the previously blended paste. Add in also coriander powder, fennel powder, turmeric powder, coconut milk and salt.
- Mix everything together and coat the chicken well. Cover the bowl and place it to marinate for 1 hour in the fridge.
- Prepare a baking tray lined with aluminium foil and place a rack in it. Arrange the chicken on the rack, removing any excess marinade sauce. Reserve the marinade balance for later. Spray the chicken with some oil to get that char looks.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 400º (200ºC) for 20 minutes. After 20 minutes, flip the chicken and spray with some oil also. Continue baking for another 20 minutes or until fully cooked.
- Meanwhile the chicken is cooking, let's prepare the sauce. Heat some oil in a pan on medium heat. Add in the reserved marinade balance. Stir and cook until the oil separates. Add water to your desired consistency and adjust salt if needed.
- When the oil separates, add in lemon juice and give it one last stir. Turn the heat off and serve it together with the baked chicken and some rice. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Calories: 275.9kcal | Carbohydrates: 13.2g | Protein: 21.9g | Fat: 15.9g | Saturated Fat: 10.3g | Cholesterol: 99.2mg | Sodium: 594.1mg | Potassium: 475.3mg | Fiber: 1.5g | Sugar: 6.1g | Calcium: 44.4mg | Iron: 3.5mg