Salted Fish Curry (Gulai Kiam Hu Kut) pictures (1 of 6)
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I don’t really have a recipe to share today, but I am going to show you some pictures of one of my favorite Nyonya curry dishes—salted fish curry or gulai kiam hu kut.
My second sister is here in the US and she brought me some instant curry paste for salted fish curry. We went to the market and gathered all the ingredients: eggplant, long beans, fresh pineapples, fried tofu puffs, and cabbage. Other ingredients include salted fish bones (kiam hu kut), shrimp, and coconut milk. With the instant paste, making a pot of salted fish bones curry was rather easy. In less than 30 minutes, we had a pot of aromatic and intensely flavorful curry…
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Curry Chicken (Kari Ayam) pictures (1 of 6)
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Nyonya loves their curry chicken, or kari ayam in Malay.
When it comes to making curry chicken, I always choose the easy way out—I buy instant curry chicken paste, which is both convenient and quite tasty. However, back home in Penang, my family would always make curry chicken from scratch. Well, first of all, you just can’t beat the authentic great taste of a red-hot curry chicken (click the picture above to check out the complete gallery); secondly, no instant curry mix would rival the fresh and exotic aroma of home-made spice paste of turmeric, fennel, cumin, coriander seeds, and other aromatics. So, the answer is pretty clear. If you want the best curry chicken, be prepared to spend some time in your kitchen…(get curry chicken recipe/kari ayam after the jump)
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