Name: Chicken in yellow piquant sauce (Ayam Bumbu Acar)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 2 tbs vegetable oil; 3 kemiri (candlenuts); 2 cloves garlic; ½ cucumber; 1 small chicken or chicken pieces sufficient for 4 people; a pinch of chilli powder or 2 green chillis, if you like it hot; 1 shallot; 10 pickling onions; a pinch of ground ginger; ½ tsp turmeric; 3 tbs white vinegar; salt; ½ tsp dry mustard; 1 tsp brown sugar; 8 tbs chicken stock

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

Ingredients

1 small chicken or chicken pieces sufficient for 4 people
3 kemiri (candlenuts)
2</

Method

Boil the chicken for 50 minutes with a little salt.

Pound together the kemiri, garlic, and shallot, and add to them the turmeric and ginger. Mix all these well. Peel the pickling onions; peel the cucumber and cut it lengthwise into 4 or 6 pieces, throwing away the seeds. Then cut the cucumber