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Char Kroeung

Sunday 29th May 2011

Hey all, today we made Char Kroeung. This involves a lot of herbs so it is very flavour-awesome. You could say its kind of a like a yellow curry, but with less things like potato and that. Also note that these ingredients is for a whole chicken lols.

Ingredients :

Lemon Grass : 1 stem/branch (whatever you call it)
Garlic : 3 cloves
Turmeric : 0.5 teaspoon
Kaffir Lime Leaves : 5 (cut into halves)
Chili : 2
Salt : 0.5 teaspoon
Sugar : 1.5 teaspoons
Chicken : whole chicken
Water : 0.5 cup

Note: you could also use beef or lamb.

Instructions :

  • Cut the chicken into small portions
  • Finely dice the lemon grass, garlic and then place into a herb crusher
  • Add turmeric into the mix and begin to crush the garlic, lemon grass and turmeric until it becomes paste-like
  • Dice the chili and place it into the herb crusher and mix it
  • Heat a frying pan to medium high temperature, and place the mixed herbs
  • Fry until it produce an aroma of the herbs, then remove the herbs into a small bowl
  • With the same frying pan, fry the chicken on medium to high temperature with the left over herbs until the chicken is cooked
  • When cooked, place the herbs into the frying pan
  • Now add the salt, sugar, water and the kaffir lime leaves
  • Stir and simmer  until the herbs become attached to the chicken
  • And Ta-daaaaa you done lols


Note: You can also add fish sauce and/or oyster sauce to the frying pan if you please =D


Here is the dish!


This is us trying to be fancy like restaurants...lols pass or fail?

If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know! Churrrr =D

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