Green chicken with green chili from Bukittinggi

Ayam lado hijau, Bukittinggi green chili chicken

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A Minangkabau dish: chicken marinated in a paste of green chili peppers, shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal, turmeric, and spices, served with leaves of c…

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In Bukittinggi, in western Sumatra, the “lado mudo” (green chili pepper) has replaced the red chili pepper: the sauce is green, fragrant, and spicy.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time15 min
  • Cook time30 min
  • Resting10 min
  • Total55 min
  • DifficultyMedium
  • Cooking methodstove
  • Gluten-free
  • Low lactose

Ingredients

4 people
  • $2.86
  • $0.84
  • $0.49

Spice paste

  • $5.11
  • $1.65
  • $0.44
  • $0.27
  • $0.18

End of cooking

  • $0.07

Directions

  1. Rub the chicken with salt and lime juice, then let it rest.
  2. Meanwhile, combine all the ingredients for the spice paste. ≈ 4 min
  3. Heat the oil, then brown the finely chopped shallots. Add the paste and cook until it browns and releases a fragrant aroma.
  4. Add the chicken and salam leaves, and cook over low heat until the chicken is cooked through and well-infused with flavor.
  5. When the hot peppers begin to turn a light golden color, add the lime juice and let them cook for another 10 minutes.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • ½ chicken (6 to 7 pieces)
  • salt and a little lime, for marinating
  • 1 glass of olive oil
  • 3 shallots, finely chopped
  • 200 g of green chili peppers
  • 10 shallots
  • 5 cloves of garlic
  • One piece of ginger (about the size of a thumb)
  • 1 piece of ginger (about the size of a thumb)
  • Half a piece of turmeric
  • ½ teaspoon of pepper
  • 1/4 cup of cilantro, loosely packed
  • 3 walnut trees
  • ½ teaspoon of ground nutmeg
  • 3 leaves of combava
  • One sheet of turmeric
  • ½ stalk of lemongrass
  • 2 tablespoons of lime juice
  • 2 salam leaves

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