Indonesian Chicken Curry (Ayam Bumbu Rujak)

this is how I like it ..

If you know and like  RENDANG, you may like Ayam Bumbu Rujak (In our language, Ayam means Chicken) as well. 

Ingredients

500 Grams chicken, cut into pieces

100 ml water

50 Ml coconut milk

10 Red peppers (or due to your taste)

6 Shallots

1 Garlic clove

1 Cm turmeric root

1 Cm ginger root

1 Lime leaf

1 Lemon grass, smashed

1 Cm blue ginger / galanga / galanga / lengkuas, smashed

1 bay leaf

Salt to taste

Brown sugar to taste

1/4 Teaspoon shrimp paste

Cooking oil to saute 

Directions

1. Red peppers, shallots, garlic, turmeric and ginger, blended

2. Saute the blended ingredients in cooking oil until aromatic.

3. Add chicken, stir-fry.

4. Add water, coconut milk, lime leaf, lemon gras, blue ginger, bay leaf, shrimp paste, stir frequently untill the chicken tender.

5. Add brown sugar and salt. Stir fry untill the gravy almost dry or dry up.

spicy and hot ..

Serve hot with rice or if you love the barbeque taste and smoky flavour, you can do grilling right after the gravy dry up. If you do not have an outdoor grill you can do on stove top grill pan.


Happy Cooking !

Indonesian Meatball Soup

... kids will love this colourful soup ..

Homemade meatball soup with so many colour will atract kid's attention. Suggest all vegetable and chicken are cut in small pieces, easy for kids to spoon. 

Ingredients

1 Carrot, cubed

1 Potato, cubed

1 teaspoon sliced celery

1 Cocktail sausage, cubed

10 Small meatball

200 Grams chicken, cut into small pieces
100 Grams spiral macaroni, cook according to the package instruction, set aside

1 Onion, thinly sliced

1 Garlic clove, smashed

500 Ml cold water

Salt and white pepper, to taste

Directions

1. Pour water into a soup pot and bring to boil.

2. Add chicken, garlic, salt and white pepper untill chicken meat falls off the bones.

3. Add carrot, sausage, meatball and potato, simmer until vegetables are tender.

4. Add onion, macaroni and celery, stir together and serve.

Happy cooking !

Fried Chicken With Red Pepper Sauce

Sometimes we have to forget our diet ... ^^

As you know in Indonesia, we eat rice and we eat  more when there is a hot spicy food like this fried chicken with red pepper sauce (later we call red pepper sauce as 'Sambal Balado' ... wooooo ... we'll get sweat for sure while eating. For those who used to travel to Asia, you may like hot spicy food, try this one.

Ingredients

1 Chicken, cut into 8 pieces
Cooking oil for deep frying
Green bell pepper, thickly sliced


Red Pepper Sauce (Sambal Balado)

15 Red peppers (If you do not want it too hot then reduce the red pepper)
2 Garlic cloves
10 Shallots
1 Tomato
1/4 teaspoon salt

Get all Sambal Balado ingredients blended, set aside.

Directions

1. Deep fry chickens till just tender or untill golden brown colour, set aside..

2. Heat a small amount of cooking oil in a wok. Add Sambal Balado, stir fry, add green bell pepper, stir fry untill mostly dry and aromatic.
3. Add fried chicken, stir fry so both fried chicken and Sambal balado mixed well.


Don't forget a glass of water because your throat will get burnt.


Happy cooking !

Crispy Chicken

Crispy .. this is how my kids love it

Children love crispy chicken. When taking them out is too tiring... then you better cook ! Oh no, it is a big job, isn't it ? Nooooooooooo .. it is as simple as you are signing in facebook .. he he he . Just try, kids will be happy when this crispy 'things' made by you... ^_^

Ingredients

Chicken, rinsed, cut into pieces, and set aside.
Flavoured Flour
1 Egg, lightly beaten

Direction

1. Dip each chicken in the flavoured flour, egg then back to the flavoured flour.

2. Drop chicken into hot oil and deep fry for about 15 minutes or untill deep golden color.


That it's ! Now you can sign out... ^_*