CHICKEN in RED SAUCE With YELLOW RICE

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CHICKEN in RED SAUCE With YELLOW RICE

Yesterday is my husband birthday so I cook traditional food from my country to celebrate it. So simple and delicious and yummy...and this food is almost serve in every traditional ceremony or special occasion, the Javanese serve with yellow rice complete with its accompanying dishes. Here I share the chicken in red sauce recipe and the yellow rice.

Ingredient

whole free range chicken cut into pieces

medium tomatoes, cut into 4 parts

400 ml

water

2 tablespoon

tamarind dissolve with 2 tablespoon water

3 tablespoon

brown sugar

to taste

Salt

shallots

5 cloves

garlic

large red chillies remove the seeds

candlenuts, roughly chopped

2 cm

gingger

800 gram

rice

2 tablespoon

shredded turmeric or 1 tablespoon powdered turmeric

litter coconut milk

1 tablespoon

salt

salam leaves (or bay leaves)

2 stalk

lemon grass bruised

kaffir lime leaves

Cooking instructions

* Step 1

For the chicken : Cut the chicken according to taste, wash clean, set aside. Roughly chop all ingredients and then blend until smooth. If necessary add a little cooking oil to the blender to simplify the crushing process

* Step 2

Saute ground spices until fragrant and cooked. Add meat, cook until the meat changes color and stiff. Stir once in a while. Add 300 ml of water, reduce heat to medium position and cook until the meat is completely cooked. Add 2 tablespoons of tamarind water, brown sugar and salt to taste. Finally add the tomato slices and cook until the tomatoes are crushed and the gravy becomes thick.

* Step 3

For The yellow rice : Wash and drain rice. Steam for 25 minutes until it's half cooked, then remove to another saucepan.

* Step 4

Soak the shredded turmeric in Coconut Milk and bring to the boil with salt, salam leaves and lemons grass and kaffir lime leaves. Pour the boiled coconut milk onto the half cooked rice, and allow to simmer. Continue to stir until the liquid is completely absorbed. Then steam until throughly cooked.