Panthe Kaukswe - Burmese Chicken Curry

Chicken curry with noodles, a popular Burmese dish favored by 'westerners'. Please try this recipe as 'is', then make comments. This dish does need a little bit of chilli powder, if you don't like to much chilli cut it down;but not out please! It is our family favorite!!!

• Ready In: 1 hr 50 mins
• Serves: 6

Ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 kg chicken or 1 1⁄2 kg chicken pieces
• 5  garlic cloves
• 3  medium onions
• 1  tablespoon fresh ginger
• 1  teaspoon dried shrimp paste (blachan,ngapi or other names for it)
• 2  tablespoons  peanut oil
• 1  tablespoon  sesame oil
• 1 -2  teaspoon chili powder
• 2  teaspoons salt
• 2  cups  of thin coconut milk
• 2  cups  of thick coconut milk
• 2  tablespoons chickpea flour (besan)
• 500  g  egg noodles, to serve

Directions

1. Cut chicken into serving pieces.
2. Put Garlic,onion,ginger,ngapi, in blender and blend to a smooth paste; adding some of the peanut oil if paste becomes to dry.
3. Heat remanding oils in a wok (or pan) and fry mixture off for 5 minutes.
4. Add chicken and fry for a further few minutes.
5. Add chilli powder,salt and thin coconut milk and simmer gently until chicken is tender. (45 minutes - 1 hr approx). If it becomes to dry add some hot water - a little at a time.
6. Take off heat and add thick coconut milk and bring the pot SLOWLY to a boil. Stir constantly to prevent curdling.
7. Mix Chick pea with a little cold water to a smooth paste and add to the curry, and cook for a further 5 minutes.
8. Cook the noodles in a pot of salted boiling water until tender around 6-8 minutes.
9. Drain the noodles and place in bowls, serve the curry on top with fried garlic and peanuts as accompaniments.