Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam)
Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam)

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, chicken rendang (rendang ayam). It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Ingredients for Rendang Ayam (Indonesian Chicken Rendang) Where is the origin of rendang? Rendang is the most distinguished dish of the Minang people, and the people of Minang has existed since long before either Indonesia or Malaysia becomes a country. Minang people traveled far and wide, and the rendang that existed today originates from.

Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam) is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam) is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken rendang (rendang ayam) using 19 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam):
  1. Prepare 1 kg chicken cut into med size
  2. Get 1 cup grated coconut (for kerisik)
  3. Make ready 1 cup thick coconut milk
  4. Get 30 grm palm sugar coarsely chopped
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  6. Take to taste salt
  7. Make ready 1 galangal 2.5cm, peeled and crushed
  8. Get 3 stalks lemongrass crushed
  9. Make ready 1 turmeric leaf finely sliced
  10. Take 2 lemon leaves crushed
  11. Get Ingredients to be ground (A) 5red pepper 20 dried pepper
  12. Make ready 5 candle nuts
  13. Prepare 1 galangal 2.5 cm (peeled)
  14. Take 1 ginger 2.5 cm (peeled)
  15. Take 1 turmeric 2.5 cm (peeled)
  16. Make ready 3 stalks lemongrass
  17. Make ready Shallots 20 (peeled)
  18. Take Garlic 5 cloves (peeled)
  19. Get Ingredients to be ground (B)

Rendang made from coconut milk, kerisik, few fresh herbs, like galangal, turmeric, serai, daun limau purut, kunyit hidup, halia muda , with meat. Chicken Rendang, A Versatile Dish and The Perfect Nasi Lemak Accompaniment. Traditional Malaysian Chicken Rendang is also a dish that is extremely versatile. You can serve this flavourful rendang dish with steamed white or saffron rice, ketupat (a compressed rice cake) or lemang (glutinous rice cooked in bamboo tubes) and thick slices of bread.

Steps to make Chicken Rendang (Rendang Ayam):
  1. Wash chicken and cut into medium sized pieces.
  2. Cut all the spice ingredients to prepare for blending or pounding into paste.
  3. Soak the dried chillies in hot water till soft. Drain.
  4. Remove seeds from red chillies and cut into smaller pieces. Place the cut dried and red chillies with some water in a blender. Blend into a paste and set aside.
  5. (Cut, Garlic,Shallots,Galangal, Ginger, turmeric & Lemongrass). Blend into a paste, set aside.
  6. Add cooking oil into a heated pan over medium flame and saute the crushed lemongrass and galangal until fragrant.
  7. Next, add in the blended spice paste & red chili paste
  8. Mix all the spice ingredients together and continue to saute for about 5 to 10 minutes until the oil begins to separate from the paste and the paste has darken considerably.
  9. Stir fry the chicken with the aromatic spice paste until the skin begins to brown slightly and all the chicken has been well coated with the spice.
  10. Then add thick coconut milk.
  11. Followed by the crushed lemon leaves and turmeric leaves.
  12. Next, add in palm sugar or sugar. Continue stirring occasionally as you bring the curry to a boil.
  13. Meanwhile, prepare kerisik by dry roasting freshly grated coconut under low flame until it is well roasted and turn brown
  14. Then pound the kerisik (toasted coconut) in a mortar as this will help release some of the oils within as well as to intensify the nutty aroma. Set aside the pounded kerisik to cool.
  15. After 30 minutes, add kerisik and stir well to incorporate into the chicken rendang gravy. Add in the finely shredded kaffir and turmeric leaves. Stir and mix well.
  16. Add in salt to taste. Stir and continue to cook for another 10 minutes until the chicken is cooked and tender and the gravy is thick and thickened.

Chicken rendang is slow cooked and stewed in the rendang sauce and my chicken rendang recipe yields flavorful and tender chicken, with complex structure of flavors, with the intense aroma of the exotic spices. I love making chicken rendang at home. While it takes some time to prep and make the dish, the end result is so rewarding. Chicken Rendang or should I say, Tilah's Mum Chicken Rendang to be exact. Even a good friend of mine who got the recipe from me by chance, has her family now addicted to this dish and they call it by the Malay name, "Rendang Ayam Mak Tilah".

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