Indonesian Ginger Chicken Food

INDONESIAN GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cook the honey, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger root in a small saucepan over low heat until the honey is melted. Arrange the chicken in 1 layer in a shallow baking pan, skin side down, and pour on the sauce. Cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover the pan, turn the chicken skin side up, and raise the temperature to 375 degrees F. Continue baking for 30 minutes or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh and the sauce is a rich, dark brown.

INDONESIAN GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• Heat honey, soy sauce, garlic and ginger in small saucepan on medium heat for five minutes.
• Place chicken, skin side down, in appropriately sized casserole.
• Pour marinade over chicken and refrigerate overnight or for at LEAST 4 hours.
• Preheat oven to 350.
• Cook chicken, covered, for 30 minutes.
• Uncover, turn chicken pieces over, increase heat to 375, and cook for 30-40 minutes longer, basting occasionally.
• Make sure that the sauce does not cover chicken, and only reaches about halfway up.
• This will let the skin get crispy and gorgeously dark.
• I love this with rice (cooked with vegetable stock), fresh cilantro and lime juice, and mango salad (recipe posted).
• To freeze: Place chicken and sauce ingredients in a large freezer bag. Seal, label and freeze.
• To serve: Thaw in fridge and proceed with cooking directions.

INDONESIAN GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• Cook the honey, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger root in a small saucepan over low heat until the honey is melted. Arrange the chicken in 1 layer in a shallow baking pan, skin side down, and pour on the sauce. Cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator.
• Preheat the oven to 350ºF.
• Place the baking pan in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Uncover the pan, turn the chicken skin side up, and raise the temperature to 375ºF. Continue baking for 30 minutes or until the juices run clear when you cut between a leg and thigh and the sauce is a rich, dark brown.

AYAM KALASAN (GINGER FRIED CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Blend candlenut, galangal, ginger, fresh turmeric and turmeric powder together into a paste in a food processor.
• Fill a large stockpot halfway with water with the lemongrass, ginger paste and salt to taste and bring to a rolling boil, then add the chicken.
• Cook on medium heat for 1 hour, then add the coconut milk and cook another hour.
• Remove chicken and strain the solids from the stock. Save stock for soup!
• Add oil for deep frying to a wok. Heat oil, then fry chicken and ginger paste until crispy golden brown. Sift out crispy ginger flakes and serve with the chicken.
• Serve with jasmine rice and Sambal Terasi.
• Blend peppers, chiles, lime leaves, shallots, tomatoes, sugar, paprika, shrimp paste and salt into a chunky paste in a food processor.
• Cover a pan in oil, then heat and saute paste until it becomes thicker and darker, 4 to 5 minutes.

GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• Slice each chicken thigh into 2 or 3 large chunks, then put in a bowl with the ginger, garlic, chilli powder, half the coriander, lime juice and 1 tbsp of the oil. Stir well, then cover and leave in the fridge to marinate until ready to cook. For the best flavour, do this in the morning or, better still, the night before.
• Peel and quarter the onions, then very finely chop them in a food processor; for a curry you want the onion really fine. Heat the remaining oil in a wok or large frying pan, then add the onion and stir-fry for about 8 mins until soft. Stir in the turmeric and cook for 1 min more, stirring well.
• Tip in the chicken mixture with the marinade and cook over a high heat until the chicken changes colour. Pour in the coconut milk, add the chilli and stock, then cover and simmer for 20 mins until the chicken is tender. Stir in the remaining coriander, then serve with pilau rice, a bowl of mango chutney - we like Geeta's - and some poppadoms or naan bread.

INDONESIAN CHICKEN

Steps:

• Prepare grill. Combine first 6 ingredients in a large zip-top plastic bag; add chicken to bag. Seal and marinate in refrigerator for 30 minutes. Remove chicken from bag; discard marinade.
• Place the chicken on grill rack coated with cooking spray, and grill for 5 minutes on each side or until the chicken is done.

INDONESIAN GINGER CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. Cook the honey, soy sauce, garlic, and ginger root in a small saucepan over low heat until the honey is melted. Arrange the chicken in 1 layer in a shallow baking pan, skin side down, and pour the sauce over the chicken pieces. Cover the pan tightly with aluminum foil. Marinate overnight in the refrigerator (or at least for 1 hour).
• 2. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• 3. Place the baking pan (covered with foil) in the preheated oven and bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil, turn the chicken skin side up, and increase oven temperature to 375°F. Continue baking (uncovered) for 30 minutes more or until the juices run clear when you pierce a leg and thigh with a fork, and also making sure the sauce is a rich, dark brown.