Yesterday, I’ve got this chance to made a special menu for my family. Get bored with typical everyday’s menu and cooking styles, then I learned some other culture dishes.
The menu is from East Java called Rica-Rica Chicken. It’s a simple dish consisting of several traditional herbs and easy-to-get ingredients. I will just go through roughly on the ingredients used in this recipe. The ingredients is as shown below.
⚫ Lemongrass (thinly sliced to get think chunks)
⚫ Shallots (crushed or blended)
⚫ Garlics (crushed or blended)
⚫ Ginger (crushed or blended)
⚫ Bird Eyes Chillies (crushed or blended)
Note: I used a food crusher instead of blender to get thin chuncks of above ingredients. That chunks is what made them even more tastier and looks somehow traditional. 😂
⚫ Chicken (you can use either only the meat or the wings etc – but first, marinate them with a small amount of powder of turmeric to remove the foul smells)
⚫ Cube sliced Tomatoes (to control the spicy taste of the chillies)
⚫ Kafir Lime Leaves (thinly sliced for aroma)
⚫ Sweet Basil Leaves (in our country, we call it Bawing Leaves – it has a great smell. Goes very well with lemongrass based food)
⚫ Chicken Stock, Salt, Sugar
Well, that’s all for the ingredients. Cook them all accordingly which come first and last. I am sure you all know right. Put the crushed shallots, lemongrass, garlics, and ginger into oil together. Followed by the chicken. Added up some water and sliced tomatoes. Put Chicken stock (powdered), salt and sugar to taste accordingly. Boiled for 20 to 30 minutes. Lastly, don’t forget to put the kafir lime leaves and sweet basil leaves for great aroma. And then you’re done. ☺👍
Below is some medias or pictures taken during preparing the recipe and the end products.
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And I think that’s all. Easy recipe to try. Feels like I’m in Indonesia enjoying their very well known menu. Oh-so-blessed. ☺
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