Ayam Goreng Betawi
I had this gorgeous fried chicken with 'lots of tasty serbuk' at a restaurant & tried to figure the recipe out for many months.
I had this gorgeous fried chicken with 'lots of tasty serbuk' at a restaurant & tried to figure the recipe out for many months. When I finally got it right, it bacame my children's craze!! I totally love the 'dust' sprinkled on plain white rice & the chicken is so moist but crunchy on the outside. Ayam Goreng from heaven....
Ingredients
- Ingredients to blend coarsely:12 small red onions
- garlic2 thumb-sized ginger15 dried chillies, deseeded & soaked in hot water6 cloves
- lemongrass (serai), sliced1/2 palm-sized galangal (lengkuas)1 thumb-sized turmeric root (kunyit hidup)12 chicken pieces4 stalks
- salt2 tsp
Instructions
- 1.
Mix all the ingredients in a heavy pan.
- 2.
Cook covered, on low fire for about 10 minutes or until the gravy has thickened.
- 3.
Remove from heat. Allow the chicken & thickened gravy to cool and marinate together.
- 4.
Heat oil for deep-frying. When the oil is hot, fry the chicken on high fire.
- 5.
After the chicken have been removed, fry the thickened gravy in stages.
- 6.
Sprinkle the yummy 'dust' all over the chicken. I put the extra 'dust' in a bottle & my kids like to sprinkle it over their rice.