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Fragrant and Delicious Kam Heong Chicken Recipe

Kam Heong Chicken Recipe
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Make a delicious chicken dish for dinner with this Kam Heong chicken recipe! Kam Heong is a sauce inspired by Chinese, Malay, and Indian cuisine. It includes Chinese ingredients like soy sauce and oyster sauce and Malay and Indian ingredients like curry powder and curry leaves. This Kam Heong chicken recipe creates a combination of flavours that’ll blow your mind!

Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Cuisine: Chinese

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Yield: 4 servings


Ingredients

  • 400g of boneless and skinless chicken thigh, cut into small pieces

For marinade:

  • 15ml of soy sauce
  • 12.5g of sugar
  • 7.5g of cornflour

For Kam Heong sauce:

  • 7.25g of curry powder
  • 15ml of dark soy sauce
  • 15ml of soy sauce
  • 15ml of oyster sauce

Other ingredients:

  • 30ml of cooking oil

For aromatics:

  • 70g of shallots, thinly sliced
  • 10g of dried shrimp, soaked in water and minced
  • 4 cloves of garlic, minced
  • 3 red chillies, seeded and chopped
  • 3 sprigs of curry leaves, stems removed

Equipment

  • 1 large bowl
  • 1 small bowl
  • 1 large frying pan or wok
  • 1 large plate

Kam Heong Chicken Recipe
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Directions

  • Marinade the chicken in soy sauce, sugar, and cornflour in a large bowl for 1 hour.
  • Combine the curry powder, dark soy sauce, soy sauce, and oyster sauce in a small bowl to make the Kam Heong sauce. Set aside.
  • Heat the cooking oil in a frying pan or wok over medium heat and add the chicken and cook until lightly charred.
  • Transfer the chicken onto a plate and add the aromatics: sliced shallots, dried shrimp, minced garlic, chopped red chillies, and curry leaves into the pan or wok.
  • Stir-fry until fragrant, add the chicken and the Kam Heong sauce. Stir-fry until the chicken is cooked.

The Versatile Kam Heong Sauce

Considering the ingredients in Kam Heong sauce, it’s no wonder it’s so popular and delicious! You can use this tasty sauce in other dishes too. For instance, you can use it to stir-fry pork or seafood like crabs and prawns. Not to mention, you can make Kam Heong fried noodles as well. You can make your own vegetarian Kam Heong dish by replacing the chicken with tofu or vegetables, the dried shrimp with vegetarian dried shrimp, and oyster sauce with vegetarian oyster sauce.


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