Recipe: Tasty Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica)

Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica). See great recipes for Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica), Serunding Raya Ayam too! See great recipes for Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica) too! Chicken is easy to find, so this is one of the chicken dish that I cook sometimes.

Rica means chili in North Sulawesi language, so ayam rica-rica translates to chicken with chili. And This rica - rica is an authentic traditional Indonesian food. In one bite you will feel the intense of spicy fla. You can cook Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica) using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica)

1. It's 1 kg of chicken. I use buffalo wings and drumstick.
2. It's of ginger.
3. It's of gallangal.
4. You need leaves of Kaffir lime.
5. You need of Lemongrass.
6. It's of Lime juice.
7. You need leaves of lemon basil.
8. It's of Blended Spices.
9. It's 2 of shallots.
10. You need 5 of garlics.
11. It's of Turmeric.

Longing to make this Ayam Garo Rica for so long! Ayam Garo Rica (Manadonese Chili and Lemon Basil Chicken). In the local dialect, Garo means stir fry and Rica means chili pepper. All I had to do was being patience until my red long cayenne pepper grown more.

Lemon Basil Chicken (Ayam Rica Rica) instructions

1. Wash the chicken, and add lime juice to remove the smell..
2. Half fry the chicken and take it out from the pan..
3. Blend the spices together until it smooth..
4. Put a bit of oil in a hot pan, add the blended spices. Stir until the aroma is out. Add water and the rest of the spices and stir it. Put salt and sugar and check the taste..
5. Once you're happy with the seasoning, add chicken and stir it. Let the water absorb and wait until the water becomes pasty..
6. Add the basil leaves, stir a bit, and turn off the stove..

At medium-high, heat oil in a wok. Manado is definitely home of spicy dishes, ranging from rica-rica, dabu-dabu, tinoransak, to woku. What I love about Manado dishes is that the spiciness is always balanced with freshness, be it from the use of lime leaves, lemongrass, tomato, or in the case of a woku, lemon basil (Indonesian: daun kemangi). Note that lemon basil is different from the regular (Italian) basil. Beri santan, sereh, daun jeruk, pandan, gula, masak hingga berminyak.