Balinese-style Indonesian fried chicken

What is your favorite animal? Mine is fried chicken 😂😉!

Here I am, serving up Indonesian fried chicken with a bold Balinese spicy sauce!

Ingredients

For the chicken

• Two chicken thighs (or any part of chicken you like)
• 2 tablespoons of maïzena flour
• 1 tablespoons of curcuma powder
• 1 tablespoons of coriander powder
• 1 teaspoon of blackpepper
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• 1 clove of garlic (minced) or replace with 1 tablespoons of garlic powder
• 1 shot of water

For the Balinese sauce

• 2 lemon grass
• 4 lime leaves
• 2 shallots
• 1 garlic
• 2 small red chillis (or more if you like more spicy 🌶️)
• Coriander leaves (optional)
• Salt and pepper
• Sunflower oil

Methods

For the fried chicken:

• Put maizena flour, curcuma powder, coriander powder, garlic, salt and pepper into a preparation bowl.
• Add a shot of water and mix it well.
• Marinate the chicken and put them on the fridge for at least 30 minutes
• Heat the sunflower oil over medium heat, then fry the chicken until crispy.

For the sauce:

• Finely chop lime leaves, shallots, garlic, red chilli, and coriander leaves. Combine them in a small bowl.
• Finely chop lemon grass, then heat the oil in the pan.
• Put chopped lemon grass, then cooked until soft.
• Add the lemon grass and the hot oil into mixing bowl
• Add some salt and pepper

Served the fried chicken with rice and balinese sauce.