Malaysian Red-Cooked Chicken | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 6 long dried red chillies (not the small dried bird’s eye chillies)
• 1 large red onion (peeled and roughly chopped)
• 3 cloves garlic (peeled and roughly chopped)
• 5 centimetres (25g) fresh ginger (peeled and sliced)
• 3 fresh red chillies (roughly chopped with seeds intact)
• 2 x 15ml tablespoons sunflower oil
• 2 sticks lemongrass (trimmed and bruised)
• 3 x 15ml tablespoons tomato puree
• 12 chicken thighs (bone in and skin removed)
• 1 x 400 grams can chopped tomatoes
• 200 millilitres coconut milk
• ½ teaspoon Maldon sea salt flakes
• 2 shallots (peeled and thinly sliced)
• 3 - 4 x 15ml tablespoons sunflower oil