Chicken Asam Padeh

no pictures this time and i am sooo glad to be back!

for today's menu i cooked chicken in spicy and sour flavour.its a traditional recipe from indonesia.one of the many2 variety of taste from Indonesia.

ingr :

1 whole chicken (i cut into 12 pcs)
15 shallots
5 garlic
5 chilli (the number is depend on how spicy do u want it)
2 tumeric leaves
2 cm galangal
1 cm ginger
2 sticks of lemon grass
4 kafir lime leaves
2 tomatoes
3 pcs of tamarind (actually what the original recipe is using "asam kandis" but u can replace it with tamarind if u can not find this specific tamarind kind)
water

how to:
-fried the chicken in the pot till brown then remove , put aside.
-pound garlic , chilli and shallots till evenly crushed then sauteed till fragrant enough.
-dunk the tumeric leaves , galangal (lightly bruised) , ginger (bruised) , lemon grass (take the white part and bruised) and kafir lime leaves , stirr till all of this add more fragrant.
-add the chicken , stirr and pour water (make sure the chicken is drowning in the water) in then lid on.
-after 6 minutes , add wedges of tomatoes and salt.
-lid on till slightly simmer...water start to reduce and if u poke the chicken it comes off easily.then u know its done..

i like to eat them in a hot rice , with the soup from the chicken! i usually dont eat the chicken..because the soup itself is damn good! :)

try it!
u'll get the flavour of indonesia that instant!