Chicken rendang

Rendang is a slow cooked food and commonly beef takes more than 5 hours to cook it. Sometimes it takes until 10 hours.

But we also can cook it with chicken. It takes about 30 minutes to cook.

You can find the ingredients at Asia supermarkets and some of them are also available at Edeka.

The food originally is from West Sumatera and always rich with ingredients.

Ingredients
- 1 kg bone-in skin-on chicken pieces such as drumsticks and/or thighs.
- 3 Tbsp cooking oil / coconut oil
- Protected content coconut milk
- Protected content unsweetened grated coconut

Aromatics (process into a coarse paste):
Protected content red chilies without seeds (if you don’t like spicy)
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- 5 garlic
- 3 cm ginger
- 4 tsp turmeric powder / 2 cm fresh
- 1 Tbsp galangal powder / 1 cm fresh
- 1 tsp Cumin powder
- 1/2 tsp nutmeg powder
- 1 Tbsp coriander powder
- 1/4 Tbsp white pepper powder
- 1/2 tsp cardamom powder (2 pcs seeds)
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon

Optional:
- 2 Thai Chili or more if you like spicy
- 5 kemiri (candle nuts)

Herbs:
- 3 fresh bay leaves / 6 dry bay leaves
- 3 stalk lemongrass
- 5 kaffir lime leaves
- 5 pcs cloves

Seasonings:
- some salt, paper and Tamarind