The Drumsticks are still as good as it is
In my recent trip to Singapore, I was able to visit the Indonesian fried chicken shop with my friend.
The restaurant must be famous for its moist and tender chicken fry. They must have marinated the meat for long hours with local ingredients such as ginger, turmeric, galanga, and lemongrass. The most important sauce for this chicken fry is the chili lime sauce with shrimp paste. In Singapore, most of the Malaysian dishes are popular as local delights, as are Myanmar and Thailand dishes that also use fish sauce and shrimp paste. Therefore the majority of people from Southeast Asia are familiar with those spicy dishes and love them too.
When I first got to the USA, Kentucky fried chicken is not strange to me as we lived long enough in Singapore to get used to this famous American food. I still remember the time my husband’s uncle gave us a treat one weekend at the KFC fried chicken restaurant in Singapore. Just for the conversation, he asked " How many pieces we wanted to eat?" , and we felt like winning the jackpot, to have free dinner treat since we were still the students at that time. When I was pregnant, I could eat 3 pieces of fried chicken unbelievably. Now as we get older, just one-pieces will be enough for me to digest well.
Nature taught us how to live healthy, not to get heavy.
In our childhood days, our mother cooked the chicken for the whole family of six, we could not argue for what type of chicken part one wanted. But when I arrived in America, my first experience of ordering at KFC was to answer the question. “ Do you want Dark meat or white meat?”. At that time, I have no idea what it meant. Only later I found out that white meat means chicken breast and dark meat means drumstick and thigh. As the Asian taste, we always prefer to have dark meat since the white meat is dry sometimes. In America, white meat has not much fat and it is tender also popular among locals. Drumsticks are unpopular and, therefore, cheap on the grocery shelves.
As for me I happily want to try making that Indonesian fried chicken at home.
Also in October, Apple picking is a weekend activity for every family as it is the apple picking season in Minnesota. Therefore I got the idea that the Indonesian fried chicken with apple salad would be a nice end-of-summer treat.
Some modifications in mixing east and west cuisine is also exciting to try.
Indonesian Fried Chicken ( 3-4 Serving)
Ingredients
2 lb chicken drumsticks
1 tbsp ground fresh ginger
1 tsp Turmeric powder
1 tsp Salt
1 tsp pepper
1 tbsp Fish sauce
1 stalk lemongrass
1 tsp chili powder
2 tbsp finely chopped garlic.
3 cups oil ( Canola oil)
Instructions
- Clean the chicken drumsticks into the french cut and wash with vinegar and water.
- Marinate for 3 hours with the above ingredients.
- In the pressure cooker, add the chicken with 1/2 cup of water and steam for 15 minutes.
- Open the cooker lid and cook till all the water has evaporated.
- Deep fry the chicken in cooking oil ( canola oil) until golden brown.
- We may choose to fry the chicken coated in the batter.
To prepare
In the salad plate, we may add romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, apple slices, sliced red onions. Top the fried chicken on the salad with sriracha mayo, Ranch or Ginger sesame dressing as the salad dressing that any kind we could choose to enjoy. Hope you enjoy making it at home.
( Note) In the Photo: I bought one dill mustard from Wisconsin from my recent summer trip. Therefore I mixed with 1 tablespoon of Dill mustard, 1 teas spoon of white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of honey, salt to taste and pinch of black pepper as the Honey Mustard Dressing for the fried chicken.
( Note) In the Photo: I bought one dill mustard from Wisconsin from my recent summer trip. Therefore I mixed with 1 tablespoon of Dill mustard, 1 teas spoon of white wine vinegar, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 2 tablespoons of honey, salt to taste and pinch of black pepper as the Honey Mustard Dressing for the fried chicken.
