Indonesian Chicken Recipes

Indonesian cooking is rich and aromatic, building deep spice pastes that slow-cook into coconut-laced curries and sweet-savoury grilled dishes. When Indonesian cooks work with chicken, they reach for shallots, garlic, candlenut, lemongrass, kecap manis and sambal, and the techniques that come up most across these recipes are simmering, frying, boiling and steaming.

The world's most-cooked protein — mild, lean and endlessly adaptable to almost any spice profile or cooking method. In this collection it's most often cooked with garlic, coconut milk, shallots, lemongrass, kecap manis and soy sauce. The dishes here span indonesian classics ready in as little as 25 minutes to slower, more involved cooking that rewards a relaxed afternoon.

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