Ayam Bakar Padang - spicy broiled chicken from Padang

spicy broiled chicken from Padang

ingredients:

2 chicken / 16 drumsticks 

1 tbsp salt

1 lime, juice

3 salam leaves

5 jeruk purut / kaffir lime leaves

400 ml coconut milk

3 tbsp oil

 

bumbu:

5 shallots

5 cloves garlic

9 red chilies

6 cm jahe

6 cm laos

3 cm kunyit

1 tsp fennel seeds

1 lemongrass stalk

2 tsp salt

1 tsp palm sugar

 

preparation:

Cut each chicken into 8 pieces. Rub the chicken with the salt and the lime juice and let marinate for 30 minutes. Rinse and pat dry. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu fine into a paste.

Heat in a pan the oil and fry the bumbu for 3 minutes. Add the salam, the jeruk purut, coconut milk and chicken and bring to a boil. Then let it simmer slowly until the chicken is cooked and the sauce has thickened. Remove the chicken from the pan and roast the chicken until golden brown over a charcoal fires in 8 minutes. Baste the chicken with the sauce frequently.