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.