Barbecued sweet soy chicken

Name: Barbecued sweet soy chicken
Yield: Makes 8 drumsticks
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon oil; 8 chicken drumsticks, skin on; juice of ½ lime; 1-3 bird’s eye chillies, finely sliced; 2 tablespoons soy sauce; 1 teaspoon black peppercorns, cracked; 4 tablespoons kecap manis; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 2 teaspoons coriander seeds, cracked; 2 tablespoons dark palm sugar (gula jawa), grated; 2 tablespoons kecap manis

Preparation info

Makes
8
drumsticks

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire Islands

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

About

A no-fuss recipe for salty, sticky, glazed barbecued chicken. Cold, this makes perfect picnic food, or if I am serving it hot from the barbecue I like to make a dipping sauce where lime juice and chilli are a foil for the irresistible sweetness of kecap manis.

Ingredients

8 chicken drumsticks, skin on
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 tablespoons

Asia
Indonesia
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Slash each of the chicken drumsticks three or four times with a sharp knife and put into a bowl.

Mix together all the other ingredients to make a marinade and toss with the chicken. Cover and leave in the fridge for at least 2 hours or overnight if you can. Bring up to room temperature before cooking.

Heat a barbecue until the coals are dusty grey and smouldering hot. Cook the d