curry development
10/10/2008
I made curry!!! And no, I didn’t squeeze the paste out of a tube or package. It was from curry powder, ok!! It looks awful though, so no pictures.
It was a little less messy than I envisioned it, although I didn’t really pound the stuff for the rempah. I just manually minced up onion, a little garlic, galangal, ginger, fried it up with some curry powder marinated chicken, then tossed the cooked potatoes in (if not it’ll take forever to cook and the chicken would be overcooked – I used boneless chicken thigh), water, more curry powder, coconut milk, and salt.
Voila! Runny Chinese curry, just like at the economical rice stalls.
It was nothing like what my mom makes. My mom makes a pretty awesome curry (when it’s not so spicy and my tongue can still taste) but she goes through a lot of trouble. Still it was pretty damn good with some overcooked Chye Sim.
Next week, we’ll attempt some Mee Siam. I’ve the Prima packs for that, so that’ll be pretty safe.
