Vietnamese Spicy Lemongrass Chicken

Recipe sourced:Nasilemaklover.blogspot via Echo's Kitchen
Ingredients for Spicy Lemongrass paste:
5 fresh lemongrass (use only the white part)
25 dried red chili (reduce for lesser heat, preferable)
1 1/2" ginger root (or can replaced with blue ginger)
8 cloves of garlic
1/2 cup of cooking oil ( or use 1/3 cup for less oil version

Method:
Remove the outer part of lemongrass if it is dried or dirty, clean and slice the lemongrass.
Ground it together all all other ingredients mentioned into a paste.
It is ok if the paste is a little coarse.
When done, keep aside, balance of lemongrass paste you can refrigerate in the freezer.

Ingredients for Spice Lemongrass Chicken:
2 tbsp Spicy Lemongrass paste
1 - 1.5 Ib chicken pieces / chicken breast pieces (marinate with a pinch of black pepper powder and some salt, i marinate with a little of turmeric and salt)
1 tsp Meat Curry Powder
1/2 - 1 onion, chopped
1 tbsp Soy Sauce / Fish Sauce
1/2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Sugar / Palm sugar, i omitted

Method:

Heat up a cooking pan and turn the heat to medium and cook the chicken pieces WITHOUT oil, cover if if needed.  Until the grease started release. (But if using skinless chicken / breast, you will need to add 1 tsp of oil or so to grease the pan).

When the grease released is visible, stir in the chopped onion and cook for another minute.

Now add 1 tsp of Curry Powder, stir well and add 2 tbsp of Spicy Lemongrass paste.

Stir for another minute, add about 1/2 cup of water, salt, soy sauce / fish sauce and sugar.

Bring it to boil and when the liquid reduced to the thickness of your liking, its done.