Name: Roast and grilled chicken in coconut sauce (Ayam Panggang Bumbu Besengek)
Yield: to serve two
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 500 ml (1 pint) santen (coconut milk); 1 slice terasi; 1 tsp ground coriander; ½ tsp turmeric; 1 spring or small roasting chicken; 3 kemiri (candlenuts); 2 garlic; 4 shallots; ½ tsp chilli powder; 1 tbs vegetable oil; ¼ tsp ground laos (galingale); ¼ tsp powdered, or 1 blade fresh lemon grass

Preparation info

to serve
two

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Ingredients

1 spring or small roasting chicken
1 slice terasi
4 shal

Method

Cut the chicken into two, lengthways, and wash and dry the halves.

Crush the terasi, kemiri, garlic and shallots into a smooth paste. Mix into it all the other ground spices. Heat the oil in a wok and sauté the paste for half a minute. Brown the chicken halves in this oil and paste. Pour in the santen and let it bubble, turning the chicken from time to time. When the sauce has become th

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