Lontong Kare Ayam - chicken curry with lontong/rice cakes

chicken curry with lontong/rice cakes

ingredients:

1 chicken

100 gr of green beans

2 salam leaves

4 jeruk purut

2 sereh stalks

4 tsp salt

1 tsp palmsugar

2500 ml of coconut milk

6 tbsp oil

 

bumbu:

9 shallots

9 garlic cloves

3 cm kunyit

4 kemiri nuts

2 tsp ketumbar

1/2 tsp jinten

1 tsp pepper

3 cm jahe

1 cm galangal

3 red chilies

 

garnish:

8 pieces lontong/rice cakes (see recipe)

4 tablespoons bawang goreng

8 pieces Krupuk Udang

 

preparation:

Cut the chicken into 16 pieces and the green beans in diagonally cut pieces. Pound or grind the ingredients for the paste into a paste.

Heat in a pan the oil and fry the paste with the salam, the lemongrass and jeruk purut for 5 minutes. Add the chicken and fry until brown. Then add the green beans and fry them soft. Then add the coconut milk, the salt and palmsugar and cook slowly until tender. Sprinkle the bawang goreng on top and serve with the lontong and the krupuk