All Natural Green Spices Chicken (Ayam Bumbu Hijau)

Ingredients & spices :

8 pieces of chicken, seasoned with lime juice and salt
3 green chili, seedless, oblique slices
5 shallots, sliced
4 kaffir lime leaves, discard the bones leaves
2 salam leaves
1 lemongrass, smashed
1 cm lengkuas, smashed
Salt to taste
Fine pepper to taste
1 cup coconut milk

Finely pounded spices into paste:

5 shallots
6 candle nuts
5 cloves garlic
1 cm turmeric
10 green chili
Salt

How to prepare :

Stir and fry seasoning, red onion, green chili, kaffir lime leaves, Serai, lengkuas until fragrant.

Add chicken, salt and pepper cook until chicken tender, add some water.

Cook until the water is gone.

Final step is to add coconut milk, mix well while cooking until the chicken cooked and the sauce's curdled.

Yellow Rise (Nasi Kuning)

Ingredients & spices

1 (2-inch) piece lemon grass
1 cup uncooked regular rice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
2 cups coconut milk

How to prepare:

Heat all ingredients to boiling in saucepan, stirring once or twice; reduce heat. Cover and simmer 14 minutes, without lifting cover or stirring. Remove from heat.

Fluff rice lightly with fork; cover and let steam 5 to 10 minutes. Remove lemon grass.

Yellow rice can be served with many main dishes, Grilled Chicken Breast is one of them.

Grilled Chicken Breast (Ayam Bakar)

Ingredients & spices:

4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves

1/2 cup fresh-squeezed orange juice
1/4 cup peanut butter
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 teaspoons best quality curry powder
1/4 cup shredded coconut

1 medium red bell pepper, cut in half

Make a marinade out of the first 5 ingredients. Pour it over the chicken and refrigerate for several hours, turning it occasionally to make sure every part of the chicken is coated.

Heat the grill and remove the chicken from the marinade. Grill the chicken and the bell pepper for about 15 minutes, using the leftover marinade as you do so.

To serve, cut chicken and the pepper diagonally into 1-inch slices.

You can prepare this recipe with whole chicken breasts too. The advantage of the whole ones is that they have more flavor. The advantage of the boneless is that they are lower in fat.

Baked Spare Ribs (Iga Bakar)

Ingredients & spices:

3 lbs spare ribs

3/4 teaspoon hickory smoked salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 tablespoon coriander seed, crushed
1 tablespoon cumin seed, crushed
1 tablespoon instant minced onion

1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 cup salty soy sauce
1/4 cup lime or lemon juice

How to prepare:

Cut spareribs into serving-size pieces. Place on rack in shallow pan. Combine remaining ingredients, mixing well. Spoon or brush sauce over ribs to coat all sides.

Bake at 325 degrees F for 1 1/2 hours or until ribs are tender and browned, basting with sauce several times.