Ayam Kecap (Indonesian Braised Chicken)

Name: Ayam Kecap (Indonesian Braised Chicken)
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6 servings
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 1130 g chicken drumsticks; ½ tsp salt; 2 tbsp neutral oil; ½ tsp ginger; 3 pc garlic; 70 g shallot; 3 pc dried chilli peppers; 1060 ml chicken stock (low sodium); ¾ tsp galangal (or sand ginger powder); ¾ tsp coriander powder; ¾ tsp ground cloves; 3 pc makrut lime leaves; 3 tbsp kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce); 2 tbsp soy sauce; 1 tsp tamarind paste; ½ tsp black pepper (ground white or black)

Indonesian chicken braised until tender in a rich sauce of sweet dark soy sauce and fragrant spices.

50 min 560 kcal/serving serves 6

560kcal71gprotein6gcarbs27gfat

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🍗chicken drumsticks

🧂salt

🫗neutral oil

🫚ginger

🧄garlic

🧅shallot

🌶️dried chilli peppers

🍗chicken stock (low sodium)

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The Woks of Life is a multigenerational family blog written by Bill, Judy, Sarah, and Kaitlin Leung, an American family with roots across different regions of China. Since 2013 they have published a large archive of tested Chinese recipes, drawing on both home cooking traditions and professional restaurant experience within the family.

Their recipes cover a wide range of Chinese regional cooking, from Northern dumplings and noodles to Cantonese stir-fries, Shanghainese braises, and Sichuan dishes with characteristic heat and numbing spice. They lean on wok technique, proper heat control, and pantry staples like soy sauce, Shaoxing wine, and doubanjiang, and they are known for explaining ingredients and methods in detail so home cooks can reproduce restaurant-style results.

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