Name: Chicken cooked in sauce with bamboo shoots (Gulai Ayam Dengan Rebung)
Yield: to serve four
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: a pinch of powdered laos (galingale); salt and pepper; 1 tbs vegetable oil; a pinch of cumin; 2 salam leaves or bay-leaves; chicken pieces (enough for 4); 4 kemiri (candlenuts); 4 shallots; 1 slice terasi; 1 cup good chicken stock or a chicken cube; 1 225 g (8 oz) can bamboo shoots; 500 ml (about 1 pint) santen, made from half a coconut or 180 g (6 oz) desiccated coconut; 2 cloves garlic

Preparation info

to serve
four

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Indonesian Food and Cookery

By Sri Owen

Published 1980

About

This is a simple but delicious way of cooking chicken pieces. The chicken is cooked in santen with thinly sliced bamboo shoots, so you have your meat and vegetable in one dish. All you need to go with them is plain boiled rice.

Ingredients

chicken pieces (enough for 4)
1 225 g (8 oz) can bamboo shoots
1

Method

Clean the chicken, rinse the bamboo shoots in cold water and slice them thinly. Peel and slice the shallots finely. Peel the garlic and pound it up with the kemiri and terasi to make a smooth paste. Make the santen.

Now, in a wok or a saucepan, heat the oil and fry the shallots until soft. Add the kemiri paste, stir for half a minute and add the laos and cumin. Put in the sliced bamboo