Chicken edition #3

Havermout Fried Chicken

My boyfriend love chicken especially fried chicken. He able to eat pounds of fried chicken in a day. When he came to my home, i cook him one of special simple fried chicken called Havermout Fried Chicken.

Usually, fried chicken use spicy wheat flour as coating chicken. Here, I use havermout and sesame as the coating. It gives special taste and my boyfriend love it!

Havermout or oats are meal made from rolled or ground oats. This healty food usually eat by boiling water that make it into porridge. I try to use havermout as coating of fried chicken and the taste is not bad at all. So, here my havermout fried chicken recipe and its mayonnaise sauce.

Ingredients:

Chicken loins and wings

Marinate spices: soy sauce, salt, pepper, garlic powder

Water

Coatings 1 : wheat flour, baking powder, chilli powder, salt, pepper, garlic powder

Coatings 2 : wheat flour, corn starch powder, chilli powder, garlic powder, salt, baking powder, chicken

                   bouillon powder, ice water

Coatings 3 : havermout, sesame

Sauce: mayonnaise, lime juice, sweetened condensed milk, tomato ketchup, black pepper powder

Directions:

Marinate chicken loins and wings with marinate spices. let stand in the refrigerator for about 30 minutes.

Add water, boiled until the spices seep into the chicken

Coat the chicken with all coating flavour

Fried in the hot cooking oil

For the sauce: mix and stir all ingredients

Enjoy the fried chicken with its sauce. 

Javanese famous cuisine: Tengkleng!

Every Javanese know Tengkleng: a kind of soup with the main ingredient are meat, innards or bones. It could be beef or lamb or chicken. This dish are from Solo. Some say it tastes like curry but with more watery gravy. But still, it's yummy!

Like i said before, solo is a place where this dish from, so mostly tengkleng become food must taste if you visiting this city. If you want to taste, i have the simple recipe of tengkleng. Here we go.

Ingredient:
Beef meat
Cinnamon, star anise, pandan leaves
Water
Bay leaves, galangal, lemongrass, lime leaves
sweet soy sauce, salt, pepper
Coconut milk
cooking oil

Fine spices:
Red onion, garlic, hazelnut, coriander, caraway, ginger, turmeric
Red cayenne pepper, red chillies (give a lot if you like hot spicy taste)

Directions:
Stir fry fine spices, add cinnamon, star anise, pandan leaves, bay leaves, galangal, lemongrass and lime leaves until it smells good.
Add beef meat, stir it until the meat cooked. Add some salt, pepper, 3-4 spoons of sweet soy sauce.
Add water
Add coconut milk
Cook it until it all cooked.

Chicken Edition #2

Ayam Taoco....

One of my experiment of chicken today is recipe named Ayam Taoco. It is not usual chicken dish that every house known because of its unusual ingredient which give an unique taste: Taoco.
Taoco is one of the Indonesian authentic spice made from fermentation of soy bean. Sharp aroma from fermentation give relish to every dish including chicken. Taoco is originally from Cianjur West Java. Historically, the indonesian-chinese person named Tan Ken Yan in 1880 familiarize taoco to Cianjur people to cook delicious food and yes, my chicken recipe today is delicious. So here the recipe.

Ingredients:
Chicken
red onion, garlic
salt, pepper
chillies
lime leaves, bay leaves
ginger, galangal
tomato
taoco --> the most needed ingredient
brown sugar
coconut milk
cooking oil

Directions:
* Stir fry slicing red onion, garlic, chillies. Add lime leaves, bay leaves, ginger and galangal.
* Add chicken. cooking until half cooked, add taoco for about 3 spoons. Stir fry all until you can smell it.
* Add salt, pepper, brown sugar
* And last, add coconut milk
* Cook it until the gravy thicken

Taste the another Indonesian authentically cuisines!

Chicken Edition #1

Chicken Recipe is one of my awaited recipe experiment. Why? It's chicken and no one will say no to eat chicken! So here I share my first recipe of chicken dish called "Ayam bumbu Woku"

First comment of this recipe: looks like thailand dish. Well, that is right because thailand dish most dominantly spices are lime, lemongrass and basil leaves and we put them all in this dish. The taste of spices and savory in this dish make it worth trying. My opinion, add more basil leaves to make a strong smell. Really enjoy with a bowl of hot rice. Hmmm......yummy!

Some say, bumbu woku (woku seasoning) is authentically origin from Manado. That is way, the spices is similar if we saw it geographically. There is two kind of woku seasoning. Woku belanga and Woku daun. Both are the same seasoning with different way of cook. Woku belanga is the woku dish cooked on the belanga or saucepan. Woku daun is the woku dish cooked and wrapped with the banana leaves. The last one is adapted by Javanese and called it "Pais".

So, here my recipe of Ayam Bumbu Woku (Chicken with Woku Seasoning)

Ingredients:
Chicken cut into pieces
Lime juice, lime leaves
Pandan leaves, lemongrass, basil leaves
Spring onion, tomato
Mineral water

Fine textures mixed spices (the secret ingredients!):
Red onion
curly red chillies
cayenne pepper
turmeric, ginger, hazelnut
Salt

Directions:
- Marinate the chicken with lime juice. Let it stand for about 10 minutes and clean them all
- Stir fry the spices, add some lime leaves, pandan leaves, lemongrass
- Add some water, put on the chicken and cook it until cooked and the flavor mingled
- Add some basil leaves, spring onion and tomato for the finishing touch
- Cook it until the gravy thicken.

Lunch with Sundanese Recipe

Sundanese has rich, flavour foods. The most famous of Sundanese is their habit of consuming fresh vegetable called lalapan. All kind of vegetable can be lalapan such as cucumber, tomato, cabbage, basil leaves and chickpea. The last one will be our main ingredients in this food called "Pencok Kacang Panjang"

Here is my pencok kacang panjang

Ingredients:

Chickpea (of course!)

Garlic

cayenne pepper

brown sugar

salt

roast shrimp paste

Kencur

Basil leaves

Directions: Smash garlic, cayenne pepper, kencur, salt, brown sugar and roast shrimp paste

                 Cut the chickpea into small pieces, put it on the seasoning

                 Smash the chickpea, stir untill mixed with the seasoning

If you like raw chickpea, this is the end of the direction. But for me, i don't really like raw vegetable except made them into vegetable juice. In fact, i don't really like to eat chickpea, moreover raw chickpea so i need to stir fry, add a little bit water and then give basil leaves for finishing touch.

Side dish: Special Roasted Shrimp (not shrimp paste!)

Ingredients:
- Shrimp ( i choose jerbung)
- Marinate seasoning: cooking oil, lime juice, salt
- Seasoning: garlic, ginger, sugar, pepper
- Honey, tomato ketchup, sambal, soy souce

Directions:
- marinate the shrimp with marinate seasoning
- roasted until it half cooked
- stir fry the seasoning (better smashed first)
- add some salt, sugar and pepper
- add honey, tomato ketchup, sambal and soy sauce
- put the shrimp into the seasoning
- roast it once more

Never say No to Serabi

When I say Serabi, most of us will thinking of Serabi Notosuman. Yup! The most famous serabi is come from Notosuman Solo. Its sweetness with pandan leaves smell and coconut milk make this appetizer a traditional, beautiful, sweet taste dish ever.

Well, actually serabi is not origin from Solo. Serabi is indonesian original appetizer, but we will find this dish in other city too. Sundanese has the same dish too called surabi. Just different prononciation. With taste of salty, this surabi is usually been eaten with bakwan, a fried mix vegetable. Really enjoying this food in the road of Kuningan, Cirebon.

I will share another way to enjoy serabi which i called it, Serabi Kuah.
The same appetizer, but different with both Serabi Notosuman yet Surabi Kuningan. This taste of Indonesian pancake is plain. The sweetness is adding on its sauce.

Ingredients:
Coconut milk
Rice flour
Wheat flour
Egg
Salt

 Sauce:

Coconut milk

Brown sugar

sugar

Pandan leaves

salt

Direction:

- Mixed all the ingredients into one bowl

- Cook it like a pancake

- for the sauce, boiled the coconut milk, added some brown sugar, sugar, pandan leaves, salt

- add the sauce on the top of Serabi

Enjoy it! So simple! So yummy!