My Mum's Chicken Recipe

This recipe I inherited from my late Mum. It is ideal for beef and duck as well. Guests could not tell it was the duck that my Mum cooked. They thought it was chicken.

Ingredients:

0.7 kg chicken ( 1 small chicken) or beef

• 5 cm ginger
• 2 cloves garlic
• 6 shallots
• 5 cm cinnamon stick
• 1 nutmeg seed, crushed and remove the shell
• 3 cardamom seeds (pelaga)
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds(ketumbar)
• 10 cloves (cengkih)
• 1/2 tsp cumin seeds (jintan putih)
• 1 tsp fennel seeds (jintan manis)

The above ingredients are pounded or finely blended.

juice from 1 lime ( limau nipis)
1/2 bottle tomato sauce
10 almonds grounded
1/2 tbsp black pepper powder
1/2 tin evaporated milk
100g ghee

Heat the ghee in a saucepan and pour in the grounded ingredients and black pepper. Fry until fragrant. Add in 1/2 cup water, the tomato sauce and evaporated milk and add the chicken which have been skinned and cut to small pieces as in stew or curries.

Add the almonds and cook until the sauce is nearly dry. Lastly, add the lime juice.

Delicious with tomato rice or beriani rice.