Gulai Ayam

Hi!
Few days ago my hubby said, "Could you make Gulai Ayam like the one Padang restaurants sell?".
"I could try", I said. "Okay", he said.

So, there I was browsing internet again, and let my hubby pointed out pictures of Gulai Ayam in the Google search page, "This one", he said. "Okay"

Anyway, here it is the gulai I made yesterday. It wasn't really like the one in the Padang restaurants, but it's nice to have them anyway. The kids, they didn't know there's chilli in it, like it too. After they finished the meal I told them there was chilli in it.

Oh, by the way, the milk and water in this recipe below is just approximate.

Overall, it's so good to see Indonesian warming food in this winter ^^!

Gulai Ayam

Ingredients:
1 kg chicken
about 1 cup coconut milk
about 1 cup water
1 stack lemongrass, whacked
1 turmeric leaf (I omitted it because I didn't have it)
4 kaffir lime leaves, tear a bit
salt

Spices, grind altogether:
3 hot chilli (I tossed out the seeds and used 3 chilli to be kids friendly. You can add more and include the seeds to make it hotter)
5 shallot
5 garlic
Ginger, about thumb size
Turmeric, about thumb size (I used 1 heap teaspoon of ground turmeric)
1 tbsp coriander seeds
4 candlenut
Galangal, about thumb size
1/2 tsp ground white pepper

Directions:
- Heat cooking oil in a pan with medium heat.
- Stir in the ground spices and cook until done and fragrant
- Add in lemongrass, turmeric leaf, kaffir lime leaves and chicken.
- Cook just a brief until the chicken change colour.
- Pour in water and coconut milk.
- Add salt.
- Cook until the chicken done.
- Enjoy with warm freshly cooked white rice.