Ayam Masak Tauco (Chicken Cooked with Salted Yellow Beans)
Indonesians develop their Culinary Skills by embracing and combining other ethnics cooking style and ingredients. Such example is Tauco, it's a kind of salted yellow beans that originated from chinese cooking ingredient.
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 1 Medium Roasting chicken
- 2 Onions
- 4 Cloves garlic
- 2 tsp Dark soya sauce
- 3 tbsp Tauco (salted yellow beans)
- 1 tsp Brown sugar
- 1 tsp Paprika (optional)
- 1/2 tsp Chilli powder
- 1 tsp Ground ginger
- 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
- 1/2 cup Tamarind water
- 1 cup Water
How to:
- This recipe calls for tauco which can be either salted black beans or salted yellow beans. Either can be found in a Chinese market as salted black bean or salted yellow bean sauce. Or you can track down Indonesian salted yellow beans and smash em up yourself. Thai markets carry them.
- Cut the chicken into serving pieces; wash, and dry. Slice the onions. Pound the garlic and the tauco into a smooth paste.
- Fry the onions in the oil for half a minute. Add the tauco, then the chicken. Stir well, so that every part of the chicken is coated with tauco.
- Put in the soya sauce and the rest of the ingredients. Cover, and simmer very gently for 45 minutes. Then take the lid off, and cook for a further 5 minutes to reduce the sauce.
- Serve hot.
- Makes 4 servings.
From "Indonesian Food and Cookery", Sri Owen, Prospect Books, London, 1986." ISBN 0-907325-29-7.
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