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Recipe for "Ayam Masak Lemak Cili Api (Negeri Sembilan Style)"


Tips

Never use onions to get the Negeri Sembilan style of masak lemak! Reduce the chillies for kids.

Ingredients

Chicken 10 pieces
Thick Coconut Milk 2 cups
Diluted Coconut Milk 1 cup
Bird Eye Chillies 11 (tapped/blended)
Fresh Tumeric 1 inch (tapped/blended)
Lemongrass 2 (tapped)
Tumeric Leaves 1 (thin sliced)
Long Beans/green Beans A handful (wash & cut into bite size)
Tomato 1 ( cut into 4 pieces)
Asam Keping/asam Gelugor 3 pieces
Salt For seasoning

Instructions

1

Add all the ingredients (except the greens and the coconut milk) together in a pot. Cook them with a slow heat until the water (from the chicken pieces) runs dry.

2

Add diluted coconut milk and let them boil.

3

Add thick coconut milk, long/green beans, tomato, salt and asam keping. Let them boil again.

4

Add daun kunyit, cook for another 2 minutes and it's ready to be served!