[Malaysia] How to cook Nyonya chicken curry (Nyonya kari kay)

Ingredients

• 4 chicken marylands
• 80 ml (⅓ cup) vegetable oil
• 1 star anise
• 4 cloves
• 1 cinnamon quill
• 3 waxy potatoes, quartered
• 625 ml (2½ cups) chicken stock
• 250 ml (1 cup) coconut milk
• 2 tbsp grated palm sugar
• Sliced red chilli, coriander sprigs and steamed rice, to serve

• 10 dried red chillies
• 1 tbsp shrimp paste (belachan)
• 1 tbsp coriander seeds
• 1 tsp fennel seeds
• 1½ tsp cumin seeds
• 4 candle nuts (see Note) or macadamia nuts, roughly chopped
• 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
• 15 Asian red eschalots (see Note), roughly chopped
• 1 tbsp grated turmeric or 1 tsp ground turmeric
• 1 lemongrass stalk, white part only, chopped

Directions