Confinement food recipe - tumeric chicken
by admin ~ February 7th, 2008. Filed under: Post natal.
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Tumeric or kunyit is a herb much favoured for its healing properties. Tumeric is recognised as one of the ingredients in many health supplements. Therefore, those of us who live in the Asia continent is lucky that we can get fresh tumeric or kunyit easily. Otherwise, there are powder tumeric which is convenient.
Here is one recipe for Chinese confinement food for tumeric chicken which you can prepare in big batches and store the seasoned meats in smaller, single serving portion.
Pound the below in large quantity, season chicken (approximately 2 kg of meats or chicken). Divide into smaller portion and freeze. You can conveniently take a single portion out, thaw and either fry it or grill in oven.
Here are the ingredients:Big lump (size of your palm) of kunyit (tumeric) pounded with 4 stalks of serai (lemongrass), 15 pepercorns and 10 shallots. Season the chicken with this paste, add some sugar and salt for taste.