Ayam Buah Keluak / Spicy Chicken Meat with Buah Keluak

Main Ingredients: • 10 pcs Buah Keluak • 600gm Chicken Meat • 100gm of minced Chicken/Prawn(*optional-to be pounded with buah keluak flesh) • 100ml Cooking Oil • 2 ½ Cup Tamarind Juice • 1 ¼ tsp Salt • 1 tsp Sugar • 5-6 Kaffir Lime Leaves Spicy Paste Ingredients: • 12 Dried Chili • 12 Shallots • 5 pcs Candle Nut • 1” Thumb Size Turmeric • 1” Thumb Size Galangal • 2 Stalks Lemon Grass • 1 Cube 1”x1” Shrimp Paste Preparation of Buah Keluak: • Wash & brush the shell. • Soak in water for 5-6 days, rinse & change water every day to avoid unpleasant smell. • Before cooking, need to cut or crack around the small opening section to remove the slightly bitter flesh using teaspoon, sniff every fruit flesh for any unpleasant odor, discard the ones that’s smelly if any. • There are 2 ways to prepare the filling: 1. Some prefer the original taste, just pound the flesh & add some sugar & salt then restuff it back to the shell. 2. Some prefer to add minced chicken or prawn, some salt & sugar then restuff back to shell. Cooking method: • Heats up cooking oil, add in paste & stir constantly till its fragrant & oil appeared. • Shred & add in kaffir lime leaves. • Add in chicken meat, stir till the meat slightly shrink. • Add tamarind juice, salt, sugar & stir slowly till its boiling. • Finally add in the stuffed buah keluak& leave to boil several times till meat is tender. Ready to be serve.