As promised in the previous post, here is the recipe for the yellow spiced fried chicken. As far as I know, my grandma cooked this before I was born. I didn’t get the recipe from her because she never really told me how until the day she passed away. So I will decide that it is a Javanese meal, the island with the most population in Indonesia.
Some of the ingredients probably is not easy to be found. However, I will try my best to give you the alternative.
One of the sexy ingredient is Turmeric. This is the hero of this dish because this one makes the chicken yellow.
What I love about cooking this, I can just keep it in the fridge and only fry it when I want to eat. Pretty practical for modern life without having to freeze it, thaw it, etc etc…
Okay let’s start.
Ingredients:
- 1 Kg of chicken (you can also add liver, gizzard whatever, as long as the total weight is 1 Kg)
- 2 bay leaves
- Enough water to cover the whole chicken
Crushed Seasonings:
- Salt
- White ground pepper
- 6 pcs candle nuts
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tsp coriander seeds (optional, but it’ll taste better. You can replace it with ground coriander)
- 2 cm turmeric (or maybe…1 tbsp ground turmeric. Add bit by bit from 1/2 tbsp)
Instructions:
- After you’re done crushing the seasonings, heat up the pan, put enough frying oil, and saute the crushed seasonings and bay-leaf until you smell the aroma.
- Then, add in the chicken, and pour the water until covering the chicken. Then, shimmer it with the small flame until the water’s gone and what’s left is just the goodness. The chicken, and the chicken fat. Until here. you’re basically done. You can leave it until it’s cooling down and store it in fridge, or just fry it.
Yeap it’s easy. That’s why it’s always been my favorite. I got 2 products. The chicken, and the spiced chicken fat (this one can be used for fried rice, veggy stir-fry etc!
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