Ayam Bumbu Terasi - in coconut milk braised chicken with shrimp paste

in coconut milk braised chicken with shrimp paste

ingredients:

1 chicken

4 jeruk purut / kaffir lime leaves

2 cm jahe / ginger

2 salam leaves

2 cm laos / galangal

600ml coconut milk

1/2 tbsp salt

1/2 tsp palm sugar

1 spring onion

2 tbsp oil

 

bumbu:

1/2 tbsp shrimp paste

2 kemiri / candlenuts

5-6 shallots

4 cloves garlic

3 red chilies

1 cm kencur / bitterroot

 

preparation:

Cut the chicken into 10 pieces and the spring onion in diagonally cut pieces. Crush the jahe and Laos. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.

Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste with the jeruk purut, the jahe, the salam and the laos for 5 minutes. Add the chicken and fry until brown. Add the coconut milk, salt and palm sugar and cook gently until tender. Spoon in the spring onion and serve.