Chicken with Sweet Soy Sauce (Indonesian Ayam Kecap). Ayam kecap pedas is an Indonesian take on Chinese chicken in ginger and soy sauce. In this Indonesian version, the sauce is made with kecap manis (Indonesian sweet soy sauce) and the spice paste is a mix of chili, ginger, shallot, garlic, and candlenut. The taste is distinctly Indonesian, and once reduced, the sauce gives a nice glossy glace to coat the chicken, and they are especially good.
And it's so easy to cook as well. Indonesian chicken in sweet soy sauce/ Ayam Kecap. The first time I made this Ayam Kecap was when I invited my extended family for lunch for the first time. You can have Chicken with Sweet Soy Sauce (Indonesian Ayam Kecap) using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Chicken with Sweet Soy Sauce (Indonesian Ayam Kecap)
- Prepare 1/2 kg of chicken.
- It's 6 of eggs.
- You need 3 cloves of garlic.
- It's 1 of onion.
- You need 3 tbsp of sweet soy sauce (kecap ABC).
- Prepare 1 tbsp of tomato ketchup.
- Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
- Prepare 230 ml of water.
- Prepare of Vegetable oil.
- It's of Garnish.
- It's of Fried shallot.
- It's of Spring onion.
Ayam goreng mentega (fried chicken in buttery sweet soy sauce), served on a serving plate. This Beb Vuyk's chicken in kecap sauce recipe is festive and fits well in this December month because nutmeg and cloves are added to the sauce. In Indonesia, ayam kecap is pieces of chicken simmered in kecap manis (sweet soy sauce), spiced with shallot or onion, garlic, ginger, pepper, leek and tomato. Other version might add richer spices, including nutmeg and cloves.
Chicken with Sweet Soy Sauce (Indonesian Ayam Kecap) step by step
- Dice the garlic and onion into small cubes.
- Heat the pan under medium heat and put the garlic and onion until golden brown. At the same time, boil eggs until floating..
- Put the chicken into the pan and add the water. Wait until the chicken is cooked.
- Add the eggs, sweet soy sauce, ketchup, and salt. Taste it based on your preference..
- Mix well for half an hour, still occasionally.
- Add fried shallots and spring onion as garnish.
In Indonesia, the term ayam kecap is often interchangeable with ayam goreng kecap (a variant of ayam goreng in sweet soy sauce) and semur ayam, Indonesian sweet soy. Sweet soy sauce (Indonesian: kecap manis) is a sweetened aromatic soy sauce, originating in Indonesia, which has a darker color, a viscous syrupy consistency and a molasses-like flavor due to the generous addition of palm sugar. Kecap manis is widely used with satay. It is similar to, though finer in flavor than, Chinese sweet bean sauce (tianmianjiang). Fry the chicken legs in oil until half done, take them out of the pan.