Recipe: Chicken Laksa

Recipe: Chicken Laksa

Here is a hot and spicy noodle soup that is excellent as a one-dish meal.

Ingredients
500 gms of boneless chicken cut into strips
1 inch ginger
3-4 cloves garlic
4 shallots
2 inch piece chopped lemon grass stalk
3 tbsps sesame oil
3 cups of chicken stock
2 sliced red chilies
1 tsp curry powder
100 gms snow peas
salt
black pepper powder to taste
1 tbsp lemon juice
½ cup coconut milk
1 cup boiled noodles
2-3 shredded spring onions
1 medium-sized sliced cucumber
1 tbsp chopped coriander leaves
1 tbsp chopped mint leaves
half a lemon

Method
- Grind the ginger, garlic, shallots and lemon grass to a paste.
- Heat two tablespoons of sesame oil in a large frying pan or wok and cook the chicken over high heat, until it turns golden brown. Drain it on absorbent paper.
- In the same pan, heat the remaining oil; add the ground paste and saute till fragrant.
- Add the chicken stock, red chilies and mix.
- Add the curry powder and snow peas, salt and pepper powder and mix again.
- Stir in the lemon juice and coconut milk and bring this to a boil.
- To serve, place boiled noodles in individual serving bowls and add the chicken, spring onions, cucumber, chopped fresh coriander and mint.
- Pour the hot soup over, fix half a lemon on the rim of the bowl and serve immediately.