Ayam Bakar Kalasan - roasted chicken from Yogyakarta

roasted chicken from Yogyakarta

ingredients:

1 chicken

2 stalks lemongrass

3 salam leaves

550 ml santen

250 ml of coconut water

3 tablespoons palm sugar

 

Bumbu:

9 shallots

7 cloves garlic

1 tbsp ketumbar

1/2 tsp jinten

4 kemiri nuts

1 tablespoon salt

3 cm laos

 

lime sambal:

8 red chilies

6 red rawits

1/2 tsp shrimp paste

1/2 tsp palm sugar

1/2 tsp salt

2 limes, juice

 

preparation:

Split the chicken but do not cut it in half. Pound or grind the ingredients for the bumbu into a paste and mix it with the lemongrass, the salam, the santen and coconut water. Add this to a saucepan and bring to a boil. Add the chicken and palm sugar and cook the chicken until done. Roast the chicken over a charcoal fire until golden brown. Serve with sambal.

 

Preparation sambal: Pound or grind the ingredients for the sambal into a paste and mix in the lime juice.