Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, pepes ayam / indonesian steamed chicken in banana leaf. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Pepes Ayam / Indonesian Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf This recipe is easy and also tasty, the thing is the preparation that takes time a bit. You know you have to peel off all the ingredients, chop them off then blend them in a blender or grind them using traditional stome and mortar. Here it is the special dish from Bali : Tum Ayam or Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf.
Pepes Ayam / Indonesian Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Pepes Ayam / Indonesian Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have pepes ayam / indonesian steamed chicken in banana leaf using 22 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Pepes Ayam / Indonesian Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf:
- Get Other Ingredients:
- Take 5 Indonesian bay leaves
- Make ready 2 stalks lemongrass, smashed and cut into 10 parts
- Prepare 2 green onions, cut into 2 cm
- Take 10 birdeye chillies
- Make ready 1 bunch thai basil leaves
- Get 12 champignon mushrooms (optional)
- Get 2 tbsp coconut cream
- Prepare Salt
- Take Pepper
- Get Sugar
- Take Chicken powder
- Make ready Equipment:
- Prepare 5 banana leaves that's been grilled a bit and cleaned
- Prepare Toothpicks, 5 divide into 2 to make 10
- Make ready Main Ingtedient;
- Make ready 1/2 kg chicken, divide into 5 or any kind of chicken parts
- Make ready Turmeric Paste:
- Get 15 shallots, peeled and chopped
- Take 10 garlics, peeled and chopped
- Prepare 10 candlenuts
- Take 4 cm turmeric, peeled and chopped
Banana leaves can always be substituted with aluminum foil, though it will never live up to a pepes made in banana leaves. Here it is the special dish from Bali : Cakep Ayam or Chicken in Banana Leaf. It looks similarly to Pepes / Botok Ayam from Java. Botok is a steamed dish wrapped in banana leaves.
Instructions to make Pepes Ayam / Indonesian Steamed Chicken in Banana Leaf:
- Blend the turmeric paste ingredients in a blender until it becomes a paste. Or you can use stone mortar and pestle.
- Put your chicken in a bowl. Add in the paste, salt, sugar, pepper, chicken powder and coconut cream. combine them all until well coated. Put in the fridge for 30 minutes to marinate.
- Take your banana leaf. place in the middle of the leaf and take 2 or 3 chopped green onions, some basil leaves, 2 Indonesian bay leaves and some paste. Add 1 chicken, add another paste, add in 2 of your birdeye chilles, some basil leaves, another green onions, some mushrooms and some paste. Fold then secure with some toohpick. Do until everything is finished.
- Steam in a preheated steamer until cooke about 15-20 minutes.
- Serve
The special spice which is commonly used in Balinese Kitchen is Lesser Galangale. Unfortunately the fresh rhyzome is rare almost impossible to find here in the west. Spiced Chicken Wrapped in Banana Leaf. I will introduce you one of native culinary from Indonesia. We call it Pepes Ayam or Spiced Chicken Wrapped in Banana Leaf in English.
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