Ayam Kapitan – Dishes Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 whole chicken (about 1.5 kg), cut into serving pieces
• 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
• 200 ml coconut milk
• 100 ml water
• 2 tablespoons tamarind juice (soaked from 1 tablespoon of tamarind pulp)
• Salt and sugar to taste
• Spice Paste:
• 10 dried chilies, soaked and deseeded
• 6 shallots, peeled
• 3 cloves garlic, peeled
• 2 lemon grass stalks, white part only
• 3 candlenuts
• 1 -inch piece fresh turmeric root, peeled
• 1 -inch piece galangal, peeled
• 1 teaspoon shrimp paste (belacan)