Topic: restaurant style Malaysian curry?

[bhamcurry]

Can anyone point me to recipes for restaurant style Malaysian curries - you know, the sweet, coconutty types that get random fruit put in them, the kind that your Malaysian granny would disown you for making?

Thanks!

[Peripatetic Phil]

So we're talking here about (e.g.,) bir "chicken Malaya" rather than a dish one would buy in a Malayan restaurant in the UK ?  If so, 'fraid I can't help.
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** Phil.

[Onions]

Can anyone point me to recipes for restaurant style Malaysian curries - you know, the sweet, coconutty types that get random fruit put in them, the kind that your Malaysian granny would disown you for making?

Thanks!

There's a couple of suggestions in this thread, although they're based on the idea that a Malay / Kashmir are all basically a korma but with different fruits.

Try cook4one's recipe, perhaps, and come back with some photos and a rating  :-)

[Robbo141]

Fish head curry in Malaysia was one of the best dishes I ever had. Never got used to the sweetness of Teh Tarik though.  Many great dinners in KL and the surrounding area. Hungry again.


Robbo

[Peripatetic Phil]

When you were in Kuala Lumpur, did you go to the open-air Indian tandoori restaurant where the chef de pain throws the chapati & naan in the air whilst spinning them to get them to an ever-increasing diameter ?
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** Phil.

[Robbo141]

Hey Phil,
I did not, but I had plenty of great outdoor dining in the evenings I recall.  I think of all the Asian countries I visited, Malaysia food had the closest relationship to India for me.

Robbo

[bhamcurry]

Can anyone point me to recipes for restaurant style Malaysian curries - you know, the sweet, coconutty types that get random fruit put in them, the kind that your Malaysian granny would disown you for making?

Thanks!

There's a couple of suggestions in this thread, although they're based on the idea that a Malay / Kashmir are all basically a korma but with different fruits.

Try cook4one's recipe, perhaps, and come back with some photos and a rating  :-)

thanks!

[bhamcurry]

first stab at it:

2 tbsp butter and 2 tbsp avocado oil
fry up an onion in the above mix then add
1/4 tsp salt or more to taste
as much garlic as you think appropriate, fry to remove raw smell
as much ground ginger, ditto
stir in and fry 1 to 2 tsp your favourite sweet curry powder blend
add 1 pint jar base gravy, fry to build flavour
1 can coconut milk, bring to active bubble
add precooked chicken
add a ripe plantain or two, cut into slices OR chopped fresh mango OR a sliced banana OR pineapple chunks
if you want to get it closer to a BIR version add a teaspoon or two of sugar

serve over rice