The Best Indonesian Sweet Soy Chicken - Ayam Kecap
The best Indonesian chicken in sweet soy sauce that you'll ever make. You can't go wrong to serve this easy-to-make chicken dish. Because everybody will just love it.
- Prep time
- 15 min
- Cook time
- 30 min
- Yield
- 6 servings
- Difficulty
- MEDIUM
Ingredients
Quantities are shown as originally provided.
- 1 ¾ pounds chicken. (Boneless or with bones. Cut in pieces.)
- 3 tablespoons tamarind juice
- 1 teaspoon salt for the marinade.
- 2 onion medium size. Sliced
- 2 cloves garlic Finely sliced
- 2 red or green chilli Sliced diagonally
- 1/2 teaspoon coarse black pepper
- 1/3 cup Indonesian sweet soy sauce (see the note.)
- Cooking oil.
Instructions
- 1
Marinade the chicken with tamarind juice and salt. Pierce the meat by using a skewer or fork. Set aside and leave it to rest for about half an hour.
- 2
When you're ready to cook, heat the oil on a wok or frying pan. And start deep-frying or steam-frying the chicken. For the latter one, you heat two tablespoons of oil on a frying pan and fry the chicken pieces until they turn opaque. Then turn the heat down and put the lid on the pan to steam-cook the poultry.
- 3
If you use boneless chicken, it will normally take about 12-15 minutes to deep-fry. If you use chicken with bone, it may take slightly longer. Around 20-25 minutes. Set aside.
- 4
Then, fry the onions in a pan with 4-5 tablespoons of cooking oil until it's light golden in colour. Add in the sliced garlic and chillies. Continue to fry for about 3 minutes before you put the sweet soy sauce, black pepper and salt in.
- 5
Cook further about 3-5 minutes until you see the sauce bubbling. Lastly, add in the fried chicken. Stir until all the meat coated with soy sauce. Let it cook and simmer for about 3 minutes before you turn the heat off.