Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Bali Chicken

This dish is my thermomix and low fat version of a recipe handed to us by friends who live in Bali. Their lovely housekeeper Made served us this and shared her recipe with me. Sadly Made has passed away but her yummy chicken lives on! Take 1tsp coriander seeds, 1/2 tsp ground cumin, 3 shallots peeled and halved, 3 cloves of garlic, 2 small hot chillies de seeded, 10 candlenuts and 1/4 red capsicum roughly cut. Blitz at speed 6, scrape sides, add 1tbs vege oil and cook at varoma for 5 mins speed 2. Next add 1 375ml can evaporated milk- coconut flavoured, 4 fresh bay leaves, 6 fresh curry leaves, 1 thumb sized piece of galangal bruised and 1 stick of lemongrass also bruised. Cook at speed 2 for 90 degrees until it comes up to temperature, then add 2 skinless chicken breast fillets, cut into thirds. Continue at 90 degrees for 15 mins and reverse speed 1. Take out the chicken fillet pieces and set aside in your thermo server to rest. Bring the rest up to varoma temp and cook at speed 4 for 10 minutes. Add your varoma tray with some chopped veggies ie. Pak Choi, snow peas, bean sprouts and sprinkle with about 1 tsp soy sauce and oyster sauce and continue steaming for a further 5-10 minutes or until wilted but still bright coloured. Set veg aside. Finally pick out bay, galangal and lemongrass and blitz for 1 minute at speed 9 so achieve a smooth creamy sauce. Serve with steamed rice. With a bit of revision you could probably do rice after taking the chicken out and adding some water but I haven't experimented that far yet! Bagus Made!