asam chicken

Ingredients:

• 500 grams chicken middle wings
• 500 grams chicken wing sticks
• 2 Indonesian bay (salam) leaves
• 2 kaffir lime leaves
• 3 or 4 asam gelugur (asam Medan known as asam gelugor or asam keping in Malay), see the picture on see the picture on Lemongrass Prawn Sambal
• 2 fresh lemongrass stalks, bruised and cut into small length
• 500 milliliter coconut milk
• 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
• tablespoons cooking oil

Spices to be ground (or you can use the short cut by making my Indonesian basic yellow paste a head of time):

• 30 grams galangal
• 20 grams turmeric
• 10 shallots
• 4 cloves of garlic
• 5 long red cayenne peppers

If you like to make it spicy then you can add 2 bird eyes chilies along with the other spices. Grind the spices with mortar and pestle or with food processor like I did.
Methods:

• Heat cooking oil in the wok / cooking pot with medium heat.
• Put the spices paste inside the wok / cooking pot, saute and stir until aromatic.
• Put inside the chicken and stir until the spices paste corporate well with the meats.
• Pour the coconut milk, keep stirring.
• Add Indonesian bay leaves, kaffir lime leaves, tamarind slices, lemongrass stalks, and salt.
• Keep stirring from time to time under low to medium heat.
• Cook until the liquid dry and you can see the oil at the bottom.
• Turn off the heat.
• Transfer to serving dish. Ready to serve.

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