Cosmo Cooking

This is the first recipe with meat in it. It might not be surprising when you realize that one of the authors is vegetarian. Cooking with meat gives another dimension and in terms of tastes, no soy burger or carrot soufflé has ever replaced for me the unique qualities of a meat product. In the future I should give more recipes with meat in it, but don’t be surprised what you can do without.

The following recipe is a recipe from Bali, an Indonesian island. Once it was a colony from the Netherlands. Still in the Dutch supermarkets you can find many Indonesian products, which we will use in this recipe.

Ingredients

• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 chicken wings
• 2 spring onions
• 1/2 tbsp palm sugar or maple syrup
• 1/2 cup Ketjap sauce or dark sweet soy sauce
• 1/2 tbsp lime juice or lemon juice
• salt
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 serving of galangal
• 1 serving of ginger
• 1/2 stalk lemongrass
• 2 kaffir lime leaves
• 3 Thai chilies, chopped or 1 tsp tablespoons sambal oelek
• 2 star anise (opt)

Crush the spices with the blade of a knife in order to crack them.

Heat the oil in a saucepan and add the chicken and spices. Fry shortly the chicken for five minutes.

Add the remaining ingredients and 1/2 cup of water.

Cover and simmer 45 minutes. Stir occasionally.

Serve with white rice and tomato and avocado salad. This chicken is better reheated.