The Popular Food in Lombok: Chicken Taliwang

Chicken Taliwang - Lombok is popular tourist destination. Food in Lombok is popular with extensive use of spices and fresh roots, such as the aroma ginger, turmeric, along with a sharp mixture of chili, and tamarind. Taste of the food in Lombok is different from other Indonesian cuisine. It is famous for its lack of a strong sense of soy sauce. If in Bali, goats and cattle is rarely used for cooking, while Lombok is popular for its jackfruit stew, beef, mutton curry, chopped beef satay. Other well-known dish in Lombok is chicken Taliwang, barbecue chicken dish in sweet and sour chili sauce and spices. There is traditional way to cook the chicken that is roast a whole chicken on coconut shell charcoal, but there is other way to cook it that is by using oven. Grilled chicken has a strong universal appeal comfort food. But, in this article we will discuss how to make chicken taliwang. Here are some needs that you should prepare before cooking chiken taliwang.

A. Recipe of Chicken Taliwang B. The ingredients:

1. 1 fresh chicken (£ 2/1 Kg about), cleaned and cut into pieces Service
2. 1 teaspoon salt
3. 1 Finger red chili, cut into thin slices, for garnish
4. 1 Basil sprigs, For garnish

C. Chili sauce:

1. 3-4 red chili finger length or 2-3 birds eye chili, deseeded
2. 4 shallots, peeled
3. 1 teaspoon dried shrimp paste (reborn), dry roasted
4. 1 teaspoon of brown sugar or sugar shaved dark chocolate
5. ¼ teaspoon salt
6. 2 tablespoons oil
7. 1 tablespoon of lemon juice or lemon juice

D. Setup / method:

Chili sauce made by grinding pepper, onion, shrimp paste, sugar and salt in a mortar or blender, add a little oil if necessary to keep turning the mixture. Heat oil in skillet over medium heat and stir the pasta soil for 2 to 3 minutes until fragrant. Cut low heat, add lime or lemon juice and mix well. Remove and set aside. If prepared in advance, heated Chile sauce before serving

Seasoning the chicken pieces with salt, and set aside for 5 minutes, then cut the chicken under a hot broiler charcoal grill until cooked for about 2-3 minutes. Brush chicken pieces on both sides with chili sauce and continue to grill for 10 to 15 minutes, basting with sauce, until cooked. After brushing with chili sauce, deep fry the chicken pieces in hot oil until tender the deployment of the remaining chili sauce on cooked chicken. Transfer to a serving dish, Garnish with chopped fresh pepper and serve with steamed rice. That’s all about Chicken Taliwang