Delicious, hot and spicy Indonesian fried chicken known as Ayam penyet.

 

About Ayam Penyet recipe creator

I am honoured to have the talented Tika Hapsari Nilmada of Cemplang Cemplung to be my guest and she will show case Indonesian dish called Indonesian Crushed Fried Chicken / Ayam Penyet.

Tika who hailed from Indonesia is a super talented young mom, who manages her time between her career, her family, housekeeping, cooking and her hobby which is photography.
Tika bagged many awards throughout her blogging/ photography years.

Her cooking skills and her photos are an inspirational for late bloomers like me.
Hop over to Tika's kitchen and check out her delicious authentic Indonesian cuisine in her blog.

Ayam penyet or Indonesian Fried Chicken

One of Indonesian most popular meat based dish is fried chicken.
From roadside stalls to biggest restaurants have fried chicken on their menu list.

Indonesian fried chicken is totally different with the ones we often see and eat in fast food restaurants.
We, here in Indonesian, seasoned the chicken meat with spices, I mean lots of spices :D.

Therefore, along with this post I keep my promise to Lisa to write about Indonesian Ayam Penyet / Indonesian crushed fried chicken with sambal.
Thank you, Lisa.

Various style of fried chicken offered by each region in Indonesia.
We have fried chicken in yellow spices, fried chicken in crispy flakes and many more.
Every region has its own spices, cooking styles and recipes.
Indonesian fried chicken in yellow spices needs two processes of cooking before serving.

How to cook Ayam penyet

First, chicken braised with ground spices before we can deep fry them.
Despite I  don’t like fried chicken too much, but I’ll enjoy it if it served with coconut scented rice or sambal.

For the sambal itself, I remember I had a dinner with friends few years ago.
We ate crushed fried chicken with special sambal and somehow the taste of the sambal still remain in my memory and my taste buds.

The crushed style dishes offer more variations nowadays and fried chicken is not the only option. When it comes to business competition, people become creative to invent new products.
Surely, customers will get the benefits from this situation.

Condiment to serve with Ayam penyet

Usually all crushed dishes such as tempe, tahu (tofu), meat ball, duck or even catfish use the same chilli sambal.

The chilli sambal is super hot but it will make you eat more and more :D And guess what, the chilli sambal in this recipe has the same taste as the one I tried long time ago. What a nice coincidence !

So, here is the traditional and humble side dish from Indonesia where you eat it with your right hand (forget the spoon, fork and knife).
It normally served on a traditional pottery serving plate.

Don’t forget the warm rice and raw salad.

Thank you Tika for the lovely post