Ampera Grilled Chicken

I found this dish when I visited Bandung west Java Indonesia. The secret is to brush the chicken with ketchup.

Recipe:

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Tofu Salad with vermicelli and rice cake

The peanut sauce really makes this dish. Garlicky, sweet and you can make it as spicy as you want. This dish could be for vegetarian.

Ingredients:
- Tofu (the one that you buy from chinese store, cubed and fried half way.
- Bean sprout, soaked in hot water.
- Vermicelli noodles, cook as directed. Drained well.
- Rice cake (you can buy rice cake pouch and cook for 1 hour), cubed.
- Cucumber, diced.
- Indonesian sweet soy sauce.
- Rice crackers.

Peanut dressing:
- Fresh garlic.
- Thai chillies, steamed.
- Peanut butter.
- Warm water.
- Salt to taste.
- Sugar, if needed.

Directions:
- On a wide plate, put garlic, chili, and salt. Mash them with the back of a spoon until almost it comes to a paste.
- Add the peanut butter, stir then add warm water. Mix well.
- Arrange on top of the sauce start with tofu, rice cake, noodle then bean sprout.
- Drizzle the sweet soy sauce deliberately, top it with rice crackers and cucumber.

Indonesian Meatball Soup (Bakso sapi)

This dish also you can find everywhere on the street all over Indonesia. Just look for a street vendor with "Bakso" written on the stall.

Recipe:

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Chicken noodle with friend wonton (Mie Ayam pangsit goreng)

This dish you can find in every street in Indonesia. This food is one of the famous street vendor foods.

Recipe:

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Sweet Chicken (Ayam goreng mentega)

This dish is soo comforting. My mom often made me this dish when I was living with her. Also this dish you can have it whenever. Sweet and buttery.. yum..

Ingredients:

- 1/2 lb Chicken legs/wings/thigh cut small.
- Lime juice.
- 1 tsp garlic powder.
- Salt.
- 2 cloves of garlic, minced.
- 1 inch fresh ginger root, peeled and crushed.
- 1 onion, sliced into strips.
- 3 springs green onion, slice diagonally.
- White pepper.
- 1/2 stick of butter.
- Oil for frying.

Sauce (mix together):
- 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce.
- 2 to 3 tbsp Indonesian sweet soy sauce.
- 2 to 3 tbsp oyster soy sauce.
- 2 tbsp shaoshing cooking wine.

Directions:
- Mix the 1st 4 ingredients, let it marinate for 10 minutes.
- Heat oil the fry the chicken until slightly browned. Drain.
- Heat a wok or a pan then add the butter.
- Add garlic and ginger cook until fragrant then mix in onion and green onion.
- Stir in the sauce cook until bubbly then mix in the chicken stir untul chicken well coated. Remove form heat.
- Serve over rice.

Steamed chicken (Pepes Ayam)

Pepes ussually means wrapped with banana leaves. This dish is a sweet and mild spicy dish. I got this recipe from one of my multiply contacts, mbak Susi in Jakarta (ibutio's).



- 1 lb Chicken chunks (I prefer the boney ones)
- 1 tbsp lime juice.
- 3 stalks of lemongrass, thinly sliced.
- A bunch of lemon basil, torned.
- 4 laurel leaves (bay leaves), torned.
- 1 big tomatoe thinly sliced.
- Banana leaves for wrapping.

Spices (ground into paste):
10 shallots or 1/2 of onion.
4 cloves of garlic.
2 fresh red long peppers, seeded.
1 tsp ground turmeric.
1/2 tsp ground galangal.
1/2 tsp ground ginger.
4 candle nuts or macademians.
2 tsp salt.

Directions:
- Coat chicken with salt and lime juice, masage them for a bit then let marinate for 15 minutes.
- Mix the marinated chicken with grounded spices, basil, laurel leaves, tomato and lemongrass until well blended, refrigerated for 1 hour.
- Take the banana leaves put about 2 tbsp of chicken mixture wrap into tube, fold the both ends and staple. Make about 8 wraps.
- Steam for 30 minute or until chicken are cooked.
- Served with jasmine rice.

Fried chicken steak with black pepper sauce

Not so Indonesian food but the 1st time I ate this food was at a mall near my parent's house in Banten, Indonesia.



Recipe:

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