Indonesia

Ayam Geprek

Name: Ayam Geprek
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Indonesia
Ingredients: 500 g Chicken pieces; some of each Flour & cornstarch; 10 pieces Bird's eye chili; some of each Garlic & shallots; some of each Lime & salt; plenty Oil for frying

Smashed crispy chicken with sambal

Ayam geprek is a modern Indonesian dish of crisp fried chicken smashed with spicy sambal in a mortar.

It arose in the 2000s in Yogyakarta and quickly became a favourite of students and street stalls.

Servings2

Time30 min

LevelEasy

Ingredients

Chicken pieces500 g
Flour & cornstarchsome of each
Bird's eye chili10 pieces
Garlic & shallotssome of each
Lime & saltsome of each
Oil for fryingplenty

★ = available authentic in the Asia Boutique

Preparation

Bread the chicken and fry crisp.
Pound chili, garlic and shallots into sambal.
Mix salt and a little hot oil into the sambal.
Lightly smash the crisp chicken in the mortar.
Combine with sambal and serve with rice.

Make it original

Bird's eye chili for ayam geprek is in the Asia Boutique.

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