Sweet ginger chicken

Name: Sweet ginger chicken
Yield: Serves 4-6
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 1 onion, finely chopped; 2 tablespoons oil; 4 chicken breasts, cut into chunks; 1 tablespoon dark palm sugar (gula jawa), shaved; 1 tablespoon kecap manis; 1 large red chilli, seeded and sliced; 3 spring onions (scallions), sliced; 2 tablespoons oyster sauce 1 tablespoon soy sauce; 1 large tomato, roughly chopped; 8 cm (3¼ inches) ginger, peeled, sliced thickly and smashed; 7 garlic cloves, sliced

Preparation info

Serves
4-6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire Islands

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

About

The Chinese influence on this chicken stir-fry is clear, but the sauce has an added treacly depth from Indonesian palm sugar and kecap manis. It is dark and glossy and permeated by the husky heat of fresh ginger. A perfect speedy supper, popular with children.

Ingredients

4 chicken breasts, cut into chunks
2 tablespoons oil
1 onion, finely chopped

Asia
Indonesia
Supper
Main course
South East Asia

Method

Season the chicken with salt and black pepper. Prepare all the other ingredients for stir-frying as you’ll need to move quickly once it gets going.

Heat the oil in a large wok or frying pan over a high heat. Stir-fry the chicken until half cooked through, then remove from the pan, leaving the oil behind.

Over a medium heat, soften the onion. Add the garlic and smashed ginger sli