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Chicken laksa

Name: Chicken laksa
Total time: 62 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: South East Asian
Ingredients: 200g chicken thighs; 180ml coconut milk; 100g prawns; 2 eggs; 1 tbsp oil; 100g rice vermicelli; 3 tbsp laksa curry paste; 60g tofu puffs; 100g beansprouts; 1 tbsp fish sauce; 600ml chicken stock; 1 lime; 1 handful coriander

Also known as laksa ayam · curry laksa with chicken · chicken laksa noodles

Rice noodles in a red-gold coconut broth built on dried prawn and chilli paste, herbs piled high. Rich, hot and layered.

South East Asianlunchdinner

Typical serving

560 kcal

usually 440–710 kcal

Typical nutrition for one serving
Protein	26 g
Carbs	56 g
Fat	26 g

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Before you start

laksa curry paste, or a red curry paste with a spoon of dried shrimp pounded into it

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20munattended

1h 2mstart to finish

Ingredients

Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard

200gchicken thighs
180mlcoconut milk
100gprawns
2eggs
1 tbspoil
100grice vermicelli
3 tbsplaksa curry paste
60gtofu puffs
100gbeansprouts
1 tbspfish sauce
600mlchicken stock
1lime
1 handfulcoriander

Method

6 steps

soak · 20m walk away
Vermicelli in just-boiled water until soft, then drained and left in the colander.
boil · 9m
Eggs for seven minutes, into cold water, peeled and halved.
fry · 8m
Paste into the oil over medium heat and fried until it darkens and the oil comes back out around it. Under-fried paste tastes raw and gritty right through the finished bowl.
simmer · 14m
Stock in, brought up, chicken added and cooked until it is done right through with no pink, then lifted out and torn into pieces.
simmer · 6m
Coconut milk in, heat down, and from here it must never come back to a proper boil. Tofu puffs in, then the prawns for the last two minutes until they are opaque all the way through.
finish · 5m
Noodles into hot bowls, chicken and prawns on, soup over, egg and beansprouts on top, fish sauce and lime to taste at the table rather than in the pot.

Worth knowing

Laksa is the signature dish of Peranakan cooking — the cuisine born where Chinese traders married into the Malay world.

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