Ayam Buah Keluak

Name: Ayam Buah Keluak (Chicken in a Spicy Gravy with Buah Keluak)
Yield: Makes 8 to 12 Servings
Ingredients: 45 g or 1½ ounces turmeric (kunyit), skinned and chopped; Pinch of salt main dish; 45 g or 1½ ounces candlenuts (buah keras), diced; 150 g or 5½ ounces galangal (lengkuas), skinned and diced finely; 30 g or 1 ounce belachan, chopped; 7 dried chillies, deseeded and soaked in hot water; 60 g or 2 ounces prawns (shrimps), deveined and minced; 12 buah keluak nuts, reserve the extracted flesh from the nuts; 215 g or 7½ ounces shallots, peeled and sliced; 5 tablespoons oil; 1 tablespoon salt; 1 whole chicken (about 1.4 kg or 3 pounds), cut into serving pieces; 90 g or 3 ounces lemon grass (seray), upper stalks and outer layers removed, sliced thinly; 3 red chillies, deseeded; 2 stalks lemon grass (seray), discard top half, smash remaining parts; 140 g or 5 ounces tamarind (assam), soaked in 7 cups hot water; 1 tablespoon cornflour, mixed with water to form a slurry (optional); 1 tablespoon thick coconut milk; 75 g or 2½ ounces chicken or pork, minced; ½ tablespoon sugar

Chicken in a Spicy Gravy with Buah Keluak

Preparation info

Makes
8 to 12
Servings

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Growing Up In A Nonya Kitchen

By Sharon Wee

Published 2012

About

These nuts may look peculiar but the contents are even more alarming. Officially, the nuts are derived from the Pangium edule tree native to South East Asian mangrove swamps. More alarmingly, the fruit which produce these nut seeds are poisonous. However, the fruit and nuts can be made edible by fermentation. We assure ourselves that over several generations, we have not heard of any Baba who has died from buah keluak poisoning!

I once tried to smuggle them into the US and got quest

Ingredients

Stew
Main course
Spicy

Ingredients

Method