Pepes ayam merah - spicy in banana leaf steamed chicken

spicy in banana leaf steamed chicken 

ingredients:

1/2 chicken

1 tbsp asemwater

3 red chilies

3 red tomatoes

8 red rawits

1 egg

2 tsp salt

50 ml santen asli

8 salam leaves

banana leaf

biteng

3 tablespoons oil

 

bumbu:

9 shallots

4 cloves garlic

7 red chilies

2 red rawits

3 kemiri/candlenuts

1 cm kunyit

1 cm jahe

2 jeruk purut

2 lemongrass stalks.

 

preparation:

Cut the chicken into 16 pieces and marinate it with the asemwater for at least 20 minutes. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste. Cut the tomatoes finely. Deseed the chilies and cut them into diagonal strips.

Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste for 5 minutes. Add the salt, palm sugar and santen and bring to a boil. Add this to the chicken and mix it blending with the chilies, tomatoes, rawits and the beaten egg.

Take a piece of banana leaf and lay on it a salem leaf. Scoop on top some of the chicken mixture and fold it closed as a package and secure it with the biteng. Repeat this 8 times.

Steam the packets slowly until cooked in 50 minutes.