Fried chicken with green chili (Ayam lado mudo)

I made this dish for an order last week. A friend of mine and her friends missed Indonesian food. And she asked me if I would like to make some "ayam lado mudo" for them. Not only that, they also wanted fish curry. So I spent the next 4 hours bustling in my kitchen, preparing both of dishes and voala, here's the recipe.

Ingredients:
1 whole chicken, cut into 8 pieces
2 cloves of garlic, crushed.
½ ts white pepper
1 salt
cooking oil

Sambal Lado Mudo:
2 tbs vegetable oil
5 green tomatoes, sliced
1 tbs lime juice
1keffir lime leave

Ground the spices:
150 gr green chilles
6 shallots
3 garlic
1 ts salt
½ ts sugar
5 tbs water

Directions:

1. Mix the chicken with garlic, white pepper and salt
2. Fry the chicken till it turns golden
3. Make the sambal lado mudo:
    Stir fry the grounded ingredients till fragrants, add tomatoes, lime juice and keffir lime leaves.
4. Add water and chicken, stir for 5 minutes.
5. Chicken is ready to serve.

Chicken Satay (Sate Ayam)

I got this recipe from a friend of mine, Keke. I saw her posting on Facebook and it looks so yummy. When we lived in the same city, we used to held Indonesian gathering once a month. The idea is simple, to bring Indonesian food and drinks, chatting about this and that, sometimes dancing to the dangdut song till we get tired of laughing and then went home, and looking forward to the next gathering. The bliss of friendship, really!

Chicken satay

So here is how to make her delicious chicken satay:

Ingredients:
1 chicken breasts, cuts into smaller chunks (50 pcs)
10 bamboo skewer, soak in water

2 big shallots
4 cloves of garlic
5 candle nuts
1/2 tsp ginger paste
1/2 tbs ground corriander
1/2 tbs ground cumin
4 tbs oil

1 tbs salted soy sauce
2 tbs sweet soy sauce
(salt)

Sambal kecap:
Sweet soy sauce, slices shallots, slices Thai chillies, lime.

Methods:
1. Cut the chicken into smaller pieces.
2. Soak the bamboo skewer in water
3. Put the shallots, garlic, candle nuts into food processor, add ginger
4. Stir fried the puree in the wok, then add corriander, cumin and soy sauces.
5. Taste the mixture and add salt if necessary.
6. Mix with chicken pieces (allow for 15 minutes)
7. Put the chicken into skewers and grilled for 8-10 minutes each side.
8 Serve the satay chicken with sambal kecap.

Still alive and will blog again

Been away for a while now and many things has happened since. Moving out from US, experienced the real winter of Sweden and Norway (for a tropical girl like me, it's quite something), enjoying the warm beach of Bali and wandering about the market in Ubud with my mum and my sister, catching up with my old colleague and bff (while working in DC) watching the sunset in Jimbaran, visiting the carved rock of Gunung Kawi, lunch at my favorite spot of Padang Bai and of course, never ending chatting along the way, walking through the clubs in Kuta and seeing the Opera House of Sydney and settling in this beautiful part of Australia with my husband.

I really mean it when I said beautiful. Lots of national parks and beaches to spend the weekend. I have been dreaming of living near the beach for a long time. Well at least since I left Lombok 9 years ago, and voala! Here we are now, only one hour away from Gold Coast and Noosa beach and not to mention nearby beaches which is only 15 minutes driving from where we live. And the best about this place is its mildly winter, no more snow, no more boots and the armors of heavy clothes but I do miss the autumn. Those scenic drives in Shenandoah will stay forever in my mind. And of course the hardest part is leaving those friends behind, the people we have spent our past four years with.

In my future posts I am going to include non Indonesian food as well, but of course with modification to cater to my Indonesian taste. Do you know what that means?  Exactly! lot of spices and chili :)

Cheers!

Ikan belado

Today while making this ikan belado, I thought why not post it to this blog. Ikan belado is one of the dish served at any Padang restaurant. It's very simple to make.

Here is the ingredients:

Fried fish:

• 2 bonito medium sizes
• lime juice (of 1 lime)
• salt 
• oil to fry

Belado sambal:

• fresh red chili coarsely ground (approx 8-10 tbs)
• 5 shallots (coarsely ground)
• salt

Directions:

1. Cut the fish into 4 parts
2. Add salt and lime juice
3. Let it rest for at least 10 minutes to marinate
4. Heat oil in the frying pan and fry the fish then set aside
5. Reduce the oil and then fry the shallots and then add the fresh chilli
6. Taste the chili paste and add salt if necessary, allow the fry for a while until the raw smells of chili or shallots gone. Set aside and let it cool.
7. Top the fish with chili paste
8. Ready to serve.