Kalasan Chicken With Shrimp Paste Sambal
- Cook time
- 45 min
- Servings
- 4 servings
Kalasan Chicken is a traditional Indonesian dish known for its savory and slightly sweet flavor that fully absorbs into the chicken. Paired with spicy and aromatic shrimp paste sambal, this menu offers a rich and authentic Indonesian taste experience. The chicken is cooked with aromatic spices and fried until golden brown, creating a tender texture inside and a flavorful crispy layer outside. Combined with sambal made using Samhok Shrimp Paste, every bite becomes more savory, spicy, and irresistible.
Ingredients
Main Ingredients
- 1 whole chicken, cut into 4–8 pieces
- 800 ml coconut water
- 2 bay leaves
- 2 stalks lemongrass, bruised
- 3 tbsp cooking oil for sautéing
Ground Spices
- 8 shallots
- 5 cloves garlic
- 4 candlenuts, roasted
- 1 tsp coriander
- 2 cm galangal
- 2 cm ginger
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp palm sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground pepper
Sambal Terasi Ingredients
- 5 red bird’s eye chilies
- 3 shallots
- 1 tomato
- 4 candlenuts
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ tsp Terasi Samhok, grilled
- 4 tbsp coconut oil
How to make it
Shrimp Paste Sambal
- Fry the bird’s eye chilies, shallots, tomato, and candlenuts until softened, then drain.
- Grind with salt until slightly smooth.
- Add Terasi Samhok and coconut oil, then mix until well combined.
- Set aside for serving.
Kalasan Chicken
- Blend garlic, shallots, and coriander until smooth.
- Cook the chicken with the blended spices, galangal, bay leaves, coconut water, sweet soy
- sauce, palm sugar, and salt.
- Simmer until the chicken becomes tender and the seasoning is fully absorbed.
- Fry the chicken until golden brown, then drain.
