SAUTEED CHIVES (TUMIS BUNGA BAWANG/KUCAI)

First of all i want to thank you to my beloved mama who has inherited to me her Femina Magazine (Indonesia) bundle recipes. Well...for me this is more like an invaluable treasure from her :-). And this recipe is coming from February 1992 recipes collection, let's check it out.

Ingredients :

3 tbsp cooking oil
2 shallot, thinly sliced
4 garlics, thinly sliced
3 red chilli, sliced
1 tempe (fermented soy bean), cut in to small squares
300 gr  shrimp, dry it.
200 gr chives
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
2 cm galangga, crushed
1 bay leave
1 tsp palm brown sugar

Method :

1. Pre heat wok pan, stir fry shallots and garlic until fragrant. Put chili, tempe, then add bit of water.
2. Add shrimp, salt, pepper, galangga, and bay leave, stir well.
3. Add sugar and chives, turn the heat in to low level. Stir until the chives coming shriveled. Turn off stove.
4. Serve warm with rice.

Ayam Kecap (Sweet Soy Sauce Chicken Lemon)

This is a very easy & delicious dish, you can served it within 1hr or less including preparation. Happy Cooking ^_^

Ingredients :

- 1 Chicken, cut it into 12 peace.

- 2 teaspoon garlic powder (make paste) or you can make it from 4 clove garlic (mashed) mix with 2 tablespoon of water.

- 2 Big Lemon
- 4 tablespoon sweet soy sauce (preferably Indonesia sweet soy sauce)

- Approximately 1 cup cooking oil for frying

- 3 tablespoon olive oil

- 2 big brown onion.

Direction :

Marinated chicken with garlic paste & lemon juice from 1 lemon for 10-15 minutes. Meanwhile preheat a fry wok pan with cooking oil inside, after that fry the marinated chicken for about 5 minutes, remove then put in the oil strain.

Sliced the brown onion. Preheat a fry pan with olive oil, then fried the sliced brown onion until medium tender. Add sweet soy sauce and lemon juice from 1 big lemon then stir. Then add the fried chicken then stir it well for 1 minute only.

Served it with your favorite steamed rice (Jasmine rice, parboiled rice, etc.)

Chicken Tomato Roast

The original recipe was came from my lovely grandma since she's ever living in Europe with her family.  To served a fast n' easy dish for a small occasion with colleagues then she create this menu. The idea was coming from 'Ayam Rica-rica' recipe but more fast & easy with a slight decrease of Indonesian traditional spices (those things are pretty hard to find that time in Europe). This dish was also became my Mom's costumers favourite, and  after several times served this for my own family, this Chicken Tomato Roast also became my husband and our friends favourite here in Doha. Cheers ^_^.

Ingredients :

- 1 ekor ayam utuh

- 5 buah shallot (bawang merah besar) (haluskan)

- 3 siung bawang putih (haluskan)

- 6 buah tomat ukuran sedang/besar (parut dengan grater,lalu sisihkan kulitnya)

- 2 buah lemon ukuran besar/sedang

- 1 buah kentang ukuran besar. (potong-potong ukuran sedang)

- 200 gr buncis 

- Olive oil

- garam & gula sebagai penyedap secukupnya.

Cara Membuat :

1. Cuci bersih ayam lalu beri perasan 1 buah lemon ditambah sedikit garam. diamkan dalam wadah kira-kira 15-20 menit.

2. Sementara panaskan Oven pada suhu 270 derajat celcius.

3. Tumis bumbu halus di dalam wok pan dengan menggunakan olive oil sampai harum & kecoklatan.

4. Masukkan parutan tomat kedalam tumisan, beri garam & gula sesuai selera. Setelah cukup gurih, masukan ayam utuh & kentang. Aduk rata (masukan bumbu kedalam rongga pada ayam), segera masukan buncis dan beri perasan 1 buah lemon. Aduk sebentar lalu segera pindahkan kedalam wadah khusus memanggang didalam oven (mis.Pyrex).

5. Panggang pada oven yang sudah dipanaskan dengan suhu kira-kira 200 derajat celcius selama kurang lebih 45 menit - 1 jam. panggang sampai ayam sudah cukup empuk dan permukaan terlihat kecoklatan (jangan sampai kehitaman, jangan terlalu sering membuka oven untuk memeriksa masakan, karena akan berpengaruh pada hasil panggangan).

6. Jika sudah terlihat matang, keluarkan ayam dari dalam oven. Ayam tomat panggang siap dihidangkan.