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Bumbu is the Indonesian word for a blend of spices and for pastes and it commonly appears in the names of spice mixtures, sauces and seasoning pastes. The official Indonesian language dictionary describes bumbu as "various types of herbs and plants that have a pleasant aroma and flavour — such as ginger, turmeric, galangal, nutmeg and pepper — used to enhance the flavour of the food."
Here are a few things I learned when making this recipe for chicken tenders. Don't skip lightly breading the tenders . The little bit of flour left in the pan helped thicken up the sauce nicely.
It is quite similar to another popular Indonesian fried chicken dish ayam geprek, as both are fried chicken smashed and mixed together with hot and spicy sambal chili paste. The difference is ayam penyet is a traditional Javanese ayam goreng half-cooked in bumbu kuning (yellow spice paste) and then deep fried in hot palm oil.
The spice mixture includes galangal, lemongrass, cinnamon, tamarind juice, palm sugar, coriander, cumin, candlenut, garlic, shallot, and pepper. [2] Opor ayam is also a popular dish for lebaran or Eid ul-Fitr , usually eaten with ketupat , sambal goreng ati (beef liver in sambal), and sayur labu siam (chayote cooked in coconut milk).
Cincaru, a small fish, deep fried and stuffed with sambal belacan or any other spice. Enchi kebin, deep-fried chicken pieces marinated in a paste of coconut milk and rempah (spices). Itek tim or kiam chhai ak thng, a soup of duck, preserved mustard greens and cabbage flavoured with nutmeg, Chinese mushrooms, tomatoes and peppercorns.
Almost any kind of meat, poultry and seafood can be made into woku dish. The most common and popular are ayam woku (chicken woku) [3] and kakap woku (red snapper woku). [4] Woku belanga is a woku variant cooked in a belanga or any kind of saucepan, while woku daun is a woku dish cooked and wrapped in banana or young coconut leaves.
The difference is that ayam penyet is a type of traditional Javanese ayam goreng that is half-cooked in bumbu kuning (yellow spice paste) before being deep fried in hot palm oil, while ayam geprek is more akin to Western-style (American) fried chicken that is coated with batter and popularly known as ayam goreng tepung (battered fried chicken ...
The spice mixture may vary among regions, but it usually consists of a combination of ground shallot, garlic, Indian bay leaves, turmeric, lemongrass, tamarind juice, candlenut, galangal, salt, and sugar. The chicken pieces are soaked and marinated in the spice mixture for some time prior to frying, allowing the chicken to absorb the spices.