Ayam Woku a la Paula Umbas

Ayam Woku a la Paula Umbas

Chicken in Spices Manadonese Style

I like this dish but didn't know how to cook it until one day I had a chat with my long time friend, Paula Umbas, she gave me this recipe and it was awesome!!

Ingredients:

1 skinless chicken breasts, cubed (you can use other parts of chicken, I use chicken breasts just because it is no fat and easy to eat)

Basil leaves, put more for better taste

1 lemongrass, bruised

2 Spring Onion

3 Lime leaves

Lemon juice from 1 lemon or as needed

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp oil

Blend/grind ingredients:

3 cloves of garlic

3 cloves of red onion

2 cm of ginger

1 big red chilli (I did not blend this, instead I chopped it finely just to have nice color and also because my husband doesn't like chilli)

Direction:

Marinate chicken in lemon juice, leave it in the fridge for 2 hours before cooking.

After 2 hours, drained, set aside.

Saute grinded ingredients with oil in medium heat until fragrant.

Add lime leaves and lemongrass. Mix well.

Add chicken. Close the pan lid for 2 minutes.

Add basil leaves, spring onion and salt.

Mix well and taste it.

Then ready to serve with steam white rice.