A chicken stir fry for a speedy supper from Indonesia, but with a Chinese influence. The recipe is from ” Fire Islands: Recipes from Indonesia” by Eleanor Ford. Serve with a vegetable stir fry and perhaps some rice.
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breasts cut into chunks
- 2 tablespoons oil
- 1 onion finely chopped
- 7 garlic cloves sliced
- 8 cm ginger peeled, sliced thickly and smashed, 3¼ inches
- 1 large red chilli seeded and sliced
- 3 spring onions sliced, scallions
- 1 large tomato roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon dark palm sugar shaved, gula jawa
- 1 tablespoon kecap manis
Servings:
Instructions
- Season the chicken with salt and black pepper. Prepare all the other ingredients for stir-frying as you’ll need to move quickly once it gets going.
- Heat the oil in a large wok or frying pan over a high heat. Stir-fry the chicken until half cooked through, then remove from the pan, leaving the oil behind.
- Over a medium heat, soften the onion. Add the garlic and smashed ginger slices and cook for a minute. Then add the chilli and spring onion and stir through. Finally, in goes the tomato. Stir-fry everything for a minute more.
- Return the chicken to the wok and add 175 ml (¾ cup) water. Season with oyster sauce, soy sauce and palm sugar: umami, salty, sweet.
- Bubble until the chicken is cooked through and succulent and the liquid has reduced to a glossy sauce. Finally, stir through the kecap manis and taste for seasoning.
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