Best 7 Burmese Chicken Curry Recipes

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY (GAENG GAI BAMA)

Steps:

• Heat the vegetable oil in a medium skillet over low heat, and stir fry the shallots until browned and tender. Drain, reserving the oil, and set aside.
• Place the chicken in the skillet with the reserved oil, and stir in the curry paste and curry powder to evenly coat. Pour in enough water to cover, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat, cover skillet, and simmer until the chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.
• Stir the coconut milk, tomato puree, fish sauce, palm sugar, and 1/2 the tomato wedges into the skillet. Cook and stir over low heat until the mixture is smooth and creamy. Mix in the remaining tomatoes, and continue cooking until tender. Top with cilantro and the fried shallots to serve.

AL'S BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Melt butter in a wok over medium heat. Add shallots and fry until golden, about 10 minutes. Remove shallots and set aside. Add curry paste to the wok and toast until fragrant, about 3 minutes. Stir in curry powder and ground chile. Add chicken and cook, stirring, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Stir in lemongrass, chiles peppers, coriander, and lime leaves.
• Pour in fish sauce and enough water to cover chicken. Add coconut milk; cook for 10 minutes. Toss in tomatoes and cook until starting to soften, about 10 minutes more. Reduce heat to low and simmer until flavors blend, 2 to 3 hours.
• Remove lemongrass and lime leaves. Garnish curry with the fried shallots and cilantro.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Place lentils in large saucepan; cover with water to 2 inches above lentils. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat; cover, reduce heat, simmer 25 minutes or until tender. Drain and set aside.
• Combine cumin and next 5 ingredients(through cloves) in a large zip-top plastic bag. Add chicken; seal and shake to coat.
• Heat oil in large dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add onion; saute 3 minutes. Add chicken and spice mixture; saute 4 minutes. Stir in broth, scraping pan to loosen browned bits. Add lentils and bay leaves; cover and simmer 30 minutes. Uncover and simmer 10 minutes.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Slice three of the onions and set aside.
• Cut the remaining two onions into chunks, and process with the chile peppers, ginger and garlic, until pureed.
• Mix together the salt and turmeric and rub the chicken with the mixture.
• Heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat, add the chicken and cook until it is browned, turning over once, about 10 minutes. Remove the chicken.
• Add the sliced onions and the pureed onion mixture to the pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until the sliced onion is very limp.
• Process the tomatoes with their liquid until smooth; add to the skillet along with the water, soy sauce and zest.
• Return the chicken except for the breasts to the pan, cover, and simmer for 25 minutes.
• Add the breast pieces and continue to simmer, covered, for about 20 more minutes, or until the meat is no longer pink.
• Remove the chicken from the skillet to a serving dish and cover to keep warm.
• Boil the sauce, uncovered, stirring constantly, until it is reduced to about 3 cups. Skim off and discard the fat. Spoon the sauce over the chicken.

BURMESE DRY CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Chicken pieces: cut off both legs and thighs together taking as much meat as possible from the carcass at the top of the thigh, separate legs and thighs. Cut down along breast as far as wing at side of breast bone to expose ribs, cut through ribs at top along length of breast bone, cut through ribs at bottom of breast as far as wing, cut wing at joint with body and remove breast and wing as one piece, cut into two approximately one third along breast from wing.
• Grind the first 7 ingredients (i.e. up to and including the turmeric) together into a smooth paste (food processor/pestle and mortar etc). Heat oil in wide frying pan or wok and add paste, stir-fry until moisture has evaporated and paste has started to brown.
• Add chicken pieces and stir well, scrape bottom of pan to prevent sticking. Cover tightly and simmer for 35-45 minutes - there should be enough liquid given off from the chicken during cooking but check now and then and stir. If chicken does get too dry and starts sticking/burning (and it's never happened to me) add a tablespoon or so of water and stir in, scraping residue off bottom of pan.
• Shortly before chicken is ready slit open cardamom pods and extract seeds, crush seeds in pestle and mortar and add to chicken with coriander leaf, stir and simmer for a further minute or so, taste and adjust seasoning.
• Serve with plain rice or coconut rice.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Sprinkle curry powder, salt and garam masala over the chicken and set aside. In a blender or food processor puree onions, garlic, paprika, cayenne pepper and ginger into a thick paste. Heat the oil in a deep pan and fry the paste over a medium heat for about 10 minutes. Add the chicken and turn up the heat to high, stirring for another few minutes. Add the tomatoes and stir for a further 5 minutes. Add one cup of warm water (enough to cover the chicken), lemongrass and the fish sauce and bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low, partially cover the pan and gently simmer for at least 45 minutes until the chicken is very tender. Remove the lid and simmer for a further 15 minutes to reduce the sauce.

BURMESE CHICKEN CURRY

Steps:

• Rub chicken thighs with curry powder, garam masala, salt. Cover and set aside. Place onion, garlic, ginger, cayenne pepper, and paprika in a blender with 2 tablespoons of water and blend into a smooth paste.
• Heat the oil in a large, lidded skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir onion mixture until darkened, about 7 minutes. Stir in chicken thighs and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, then add tomatoes, lemon grass, and fish sauce. Cook for 2 minutes. Stir in 1 cup of water and bring the curry to a boil. Cover and reduce heat to low and cook until the chicken begins to fall apart, stirring occasionally, 25 to 35 minutes. Remove lid and increase heat. Cook until the sauce is reduced, about 5 minutes. Skim off excess oil from the top and discard.