Surinamese Style Shabbat

I am not sure why I chose Suriname but I am glad I did. Suriname is located in South America and 70 percent of the country is rain forest. It is the smallest country in South America with a very diverse population.  
Suriname was a Dutch colony with a plantation-based economy. When the slaves were freed, workers were brought from the Dutch West Indies and India.
The food reflects the diverse population. The recipes I found included Indian and Indonesian foods. 
Two recipes, Pastei (chicken pie) and Pom (chicken casserole) are Surinamese Jewish dishes.

http://southamericanfood.about.com/od/exploresouthamericanfood/a/surinamefood.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/surinamesefoodrecipies/

Jewish Life and History

Jews have a long history in Suriname. The first to arrive were Jews from Portugal who had fled to Holland to escape the Inquisition. To escape the new difficulties in Holland, the Jews went to Suriname. There the Jews were generally very successful. 
From what I read, the Jewish community was never very large. It seemed to stay under 1000. Today there are about 200 Jews in Suriname. 
There is a replica of Suriname's Neve Shalom Synagogue in the Israel museum. It is a beautiful synagogue and the floor is from sand.

ttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Suriname.html
http://www.suriname-jewish-community.com/
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/29647/once-thriving-jewish-community-in-suriname-is-struggling/
http://forward.com/articles/105939/shake-a-family-tree-and-a-jew-falls-out/
http://www.suriname-jewish-community.com/our-history.html

Food

Friday Night Dinner

Dahl Lentil Stew with Roti bread
Pastei (Chicken Pie)

Prepared for 8.

Dahl Lentil Stew 

Although we usually have soup as a first course on Friday night, I decided to serve this stew. The mango and orange added a nice sweetness to it. 

Original Recipes
http://southamericanfood.about.com/od/beansgrainspotatoes/r/dhal.htm
https://sites.google.com/site/surinamesefoodrecipies/dhal-lentil-stew

My  Dahl Lentil Stew Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 large onions
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed or grated small
• margarine
• 2 tsp cumin seed
• 4 cups red lentils
• 12 cups  vegetable broth
• 2 tbsp turmeric
• 2 tbsp curry powder
• salt and pepper
• juice of one orange
• 1 mango diced

Preparation 

1. Saute onion and garlic in margarine for about 15 minutes.
2. Add broth, lentils, curry powder, and turmeric and salt and pepper.
3. Cook about 25 minutes.
4. Add mango and orange juice and cook about 15 more minutes until all the liquid is absorbed.
5. Season with salt and pepper.

Roti Bread (Grilled Flat bread)

This bread is used to scoop the stew from the bowl. It is lightly fried in oil and fairly thin.

Original recipes
http://southamericanfood.about.com/od/breads/r/roti.htm
http://mydutchcookingblog.blogspot.co.il/2010/12/colonial-cuisine-roti.html

My  Roti Bread Recipe

Ingredients

•  3 cups flour
• 2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 cup oil
• 1/2 cup warm water
• pinch of salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Mix flour, baking soda, salt, and pepper together.
2. Slowly mix in oil and water.
3. Knead dough, add flour if needed.
4. Let dough reset about 5 minutes.
5. Cut dough into egg-size balls.
6. Heat a small amount of oil (about 1 tsp). I used a wok.
7. Roll the dough into a large flat pancake and place in pan.
8. When dough starts to puff, turn it over until the other side is done.
9. To store, cover tightly with foil and leave in the refrigerator until ready to serve. Warm before serving.

Pastei  (Chicken Pie)

This was originally a Jewish recipe. It is a chicken pie recipe with a variety of ingredients. It includes dill pickles, which surprised me. This pie was very good.

Original recipes:
http://www.food.com/recipe/pastei-455128
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Pastei

My  Pastei Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 - 8 chicken pieces (I used legs and thighs)
• 3 dill pickles
• 3 eggs hard boiled
• 200 gram frozen peas, cooked
• 1/2 tsp allspice
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 4 carrots
• 2 large tomatoes
• 2 stalks celery
• 2 small hot peppers
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• margarine
• bay leaf
• salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Saute 1/2 onion in margarine.
2. Add chicken and brown slightly.
3. Add bay leaf, allspice, salt and pepper, and cover with water.
4. Cook 30 minutes.
5. When done, remove chicken, and let cool.
6. When cool, remove chicken from bone, discarding bones.
7. Cut chicken into small pieces.
8. Put about 50 grams of margarine into the remaining broth.
9. Saute remaining onion in another pan in oil.
10. Add chicken to the onions. Then add carrot, tomato, peas, celery, hot pepper, and nutmeg. Add broth and tomato paste. Salt and pepper.
11. Cook until the carrots are tender.
12. Add chopped pickles.
13. Roll pastry  thin and line the bottom of pan prepared with non-stick spray.
14. Pour chicken mixture onto pastry.
15. Slice eggs and layer on chicken.
16. Cover the chicken and eggs with pasty dough.
17. Brush top of dough with eggs white or oil.
18. Cook in oven at 165 c for about an hour. 

Shabbat Lunch Dinner

Food

Fish Marsala
Vegetables with Peanut Sauce
Pom Chicken (Chicken Casserole)
Suriname Chicken Curry
Javenese Bami Noodles

Prepared for 12.

Fish Marsella

This is one of the Indian or Indonesian dishes eaten in Suriname. I am sure we had this when we ate Indonesian food.

Original recipe:
https://sites.google.com/site/surinamesefoodrecipies/fish-masala-dishes




My  Fish Marsella Recipe

Ingredients

• 8 pieces sole fillet
• Oil for frying
• 3 cloves garlic, grated small
• 1 onion
• 3 tbsp curry powder
• 3 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 small hot peppers
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• salt

Preparation

1. Fry fish in oil.
2. Remove fish and set aside.
3. Saute oil and garlic until glazed.
4. Add curry powder, stirring.
5. Add fish, tomato paste,  hot peppers, water, sugar, broth,and salt.
6. Let simmer 10 minutes.

Peanut Sauce

I served this warm with a variety of lightly steamed vegetables. I think the quality of the peanut butter makes a big difference in the final sauce. I made a peanut sauce when we ate Indonesian food and it was great. This time it was good but not as good.

Original recipe:


http://80mealsrecipes.blogspot.co.il/2006/09/surinamese-spicy-peanut-sauce.html

My  Peanut Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 cloves garlic, grated small
• 1 tbsp ginger, grated small
• 200 grams peanut butter, use a good quality peanut butter
• t tbsp tomato paste
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp oil
• 1 tbsp vinegar
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 2 tbsp coriander
• coconut milk or water to taste
• salt and pepper

Preparation

1. Heat oil in pan.
2. Add garlic, chili powder, ginger. Saute.
3. Add peanut butter.
4. When the peanut butter is melted, add tomato paste.
5. Mix well.
6. Add water or coconut milk to adjust the thickness of the sauce.

Pom Dish (Chicken Casserole)

This was also originally a Jewish recipe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pom_(dish)
 The recipe calls for a root cassava. Cassava is a tuber, similar to yucca. (http://www.cassavachips.com/cassava.html). I substituted sweet potato. At lunch Harry told me we grow cassava. I would have never thought to put together the ingredients in this casserole but it was very good. I may try to make it again with the cassava.

Original recipes


http://apickyeatersquest.blogspot.co.il/2010/04/pom-surinamese-chicken-casserole.html
http://gosouthamerica.about.com/library/blsur2.htm

My  Pom Dish Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 chicken breast, in strips
• 4 sweet potato, grated
• oil for frying
• 4 stalks celery, chopped
• 4 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 tomato, chopped
• 2 onion, chopped
• 4 cloves garlic, crushed or grated small
• juice of 1 orange
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• salt and pepper
• 2 tsp sugar
• 12 small dill pickles, chopped

Preparation

1. Fry chicken strips in oil.
2. Add onion and garlic, and saute.
3. Add juice, broth, nutmeg, tomato puree, celery, and tomato.
4. Let simmer about 20 minutes.
5. Mix together  grated sweet potato, pickles, and sugar.
6. Spread half of the potato mixture in  baking pan. Place chicken mixture on this, then add another layer of the potato mixture.
7. Cover with foil and bake at least one hour.
8. Remove cover and bake another half hour until top is brown and set.

Suriname Curry Chicken

Another Indian/Indonesian recipe. Easy to make.

Original recipe:
http://80mealsrecipes.blogspot.co.il/2006/09/surinamese-spicy-peanut-sauce.html

My  Suriname Curry Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 3 chicken breasts, cut into pieces
• 2 cloves garlic, grated small
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 tbsp curry powder
• 4 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp sugar
•  hot peppers to taste,
• salt
• water

Preparation

1. Saute onion and garlic.
2. Add curry and stir well.
3. Add chicken with peppers, sugar, and salt.
4. Stir so chicken is well coated.
5. Add water to cover and cook until tender.

Javanese Bami Noodles

One more Indian/Indonesian recipe and also easy to make.

Original recipe:
http://www.multiculticooking.com/2009/01/18/javanese-bami-surinamese/

My  Javanese Bami Noodle  Recipe

Ingredients

• 500 grams spaghetti
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, grated small
• 1 stalk celery, chopped
• 2 curry leaves, chopped
• 2 tbsp oil
• 2 tbsp soy sauce

Preparation

1. Cook spaghetti in salted water.
2. Drain and toss in oil so spaghetti does not stick.
3. Saute onion, garlic, curry leaves, celery in oil and soy sauce.
4. Toss over spaghetti.

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New Zealand Style Shabbat

We've tried food from so many places. There is of course, a similarity between foods from countries with similar origins or close proximity. 
I chose New Zealand for a change. The cuisine is inspired from European, Asian, and Polynesian influences. I tried to sample each of these in the recipes I chose.
By the way, Leia voted New Zealand as her favorite food.
Jewish Life and History
Today there are about 5000 Jews in New Zealand. Jews arrived as traders in the 1840s. Although the articles I found,  did not discuss antisemitism, shechita was outlawed in 2010.
There were also articles about the Maori  tribe and their connection to Judaism. For some reason, they have a connection to Kabbalah. 


Maori and Jews
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3561097,00.html
Jews in New Zealand
http://vital.org.nz/nzjews.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_New_Zealand

Friday Night Dinner

Food

Curried Kumara Soup (New Zealand Sweet Potato Soup)
Maori Fried Bread

Lemon Fish

White Fish Fritters

Prepared for 7.

Curried Kumara Soup (New Zealand Sweet Potato Soup)  

Excellent soup. This sweet potato soup has interesting spices. It was perfect for the hot summer night. 

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original recipe: http://www.soupsong.com/rkumara.html

My  Kumara  (New Zealand Sweet Potato) Soup Recipe

Ingredients

• 2-4 tbsp margarine
• 4 cloves garlic, grated
• 2 onions chopped
• 2 tsp ginger, grated
• 1 -1/2 tbspcurry powder
• 6 cooked sweet potatoes
• 5 cups vegetable broth (mine was from zucchini, carrots, leek, onion, garlic, corriander, salt and pepper
• Salt and pepper
• 3 cups soy milk
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 8 scallions chopped

Preparation 

1. Steam or boil sweet potatoes until soft.
2. Saute garlic, onion, and ginger until onion is translucent.
3. Puree sweet potatoes in blender.
4. Add broth and sweet potatoes to , garlic, onion, and  ginger.
5. Add curry, salt and pepper and heat. .
6. Store.
7. Before serving, add soy milk to soup. Mix well and heat.
8. Add scallions before serving.

Maori Fried Bread  

Another delicious recipe. I thought they would dry out before I served them. I rewarmed them several times on the warmer. I stored them in a tightly covered foil pan and warmed them in the same pan. 

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original recipes:
http://www.grouprecipes.com/12518/maori-fried-bread.html
http://www.food.com/recipe/maori-new-zealand-fry-bread-174086

My  Maori Fried Bread  Recipe

Ingredients

• 8-10 cups flour
• 2 tbsp dry yeast
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp flour
• 4 cups warm water
• pinch salt
• oil for frying the dough

Preparation 

1. In a bowl., mix 2 tbsp yeast, 2tbsp sugar, tbsp flour, 4 cups warm water. Let stand about 15 minutes until a froth forms.
2. In a large bowl, place 9 cups flour and a pinch of salt. Mix.
3. Make a well in the flour and pour the yeast mixture in. Gradually mix the flour into the liquid.
4. Place dough on a floured surface, knead. Let stand 15 minutes.
5. Prepare oil in a pot.
6. Cut the dough into desired size and fry until brown.
7. To store overnight, when cool cover.
8. Heat on warmer with a little margarine or oil.

Lemon Fish  

This spices in this fish were very tasty!

original recipe: http://www.food.com/recipe/lemon-fish-new-zealand-477909

My  Lemon Fish Recipe

Ingredients

• 5 talpia
• Margerine
• 2 onions
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 2 tsp pepper
• 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1/2 tsp ginger
• 1 cups water
• 1/2 lemon
• Sauce:
• 2 eggs beaten
• 2 tbsp flour
• 2 tbsp corrannder

Preparation 

1. Sprinkle fish with salt
2. Saute onions in margerine until translucent
3. Add fish and cook 2 minutes
4. Add spices  and water and cook until fish is done
5. Remove fish and leave liquid
6. Beat eggs, flour, and corriander together
7. Add lemon juice
8. Add another cup of water to remaining liquid.
9. Add to liquid and cook until it thickens
10. Prepare sauce, beat eggs, flour, and corrinader. Add cup of water to remaining liquid, then add egg mixture, stirring constantly. When it starts to thicken, remove from heat and pour over fish.

White Fish Fritters

Good, not spicy at all and went well with the spicier lemon fish.
original recipe: http://www.rainforestwebs.com/recipes/fishfritters.html

My  White Fish Fritters Recipe

Ingredients

• sole
• 1 cup flout
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/2 tsp baking powder 
• 1 egg 
• 1/2 cup milk

Preparation 

1. Mix flour, baking powder, and salt.
2. Add egg and milk to make a batter.
3. Dip fish in batter and fry until brown.

Shabbat Lunch Dinner

Food

Piripiri Chicken
Meat Pie

Crunchy Potato Wedges

Prepared for 14

Piripiri Chicken 

Great, great, great. All the kids liked this. They said it was one of the best chicken dishes we have had.

original recipes: 

http://www.maorifood.com/recipes/maorirecipe06.htm
http://tvnz.co.nz/jamies-30-minute-meals/jamie-s-piri-chicken-4336981
Piripiri  Spice
http://www.food.com/recipe/piri-piri-spice-mix-make-your-own-30002
http://tvnz.co.nz/jamies-30-minute-meals/jamie-s-piri-chicken-4336981

My Piripiri Chicken Recipe

Ingredients

• 16 thigh and legs
• 1 bottle coca cola
• 3 tsp paprika
• 2 tsp dried oregano
• 2 tsp cardemon
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp cayene pepper
• 4 cloves garlic, grated
• 2 onions, chopped

Preparation 

1. Marinate chicken in cola for 4 hours.
2. Place chicken in pan and sprinkle spice mixture over the chicken.
3. Sprinkle garlic and onion on chicken.
4. Cook

I cooked this in 2 pans dividing the ingredients in half.

Meat Pie 

According to what I read, these little pies are common snacks in New Zealand (and Australia). I wanted to try to make a few types but ran out of time. This was a little dry and the crust did not cook all the way on all the pies.

My Meat Pie Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 kilo ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 cup vegetable broth
• 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1 tbsp cornflour
• 2 tsp tomato paste
• prepared pasty dough

Preparation

1. Saute meat and onion, cooking until done.
2. Add broth, Worcestershire sauce, cornflour, and tomato paste.
3. Bring to a boil and cook until it thickens.
4. Grease muffin tins or use Pam. Line tins with prepared dough.
5. Fill tins with meat and cover with another piece of dough. (I cut small circles of dough and placed it on top of the meat in each muffin tin.)
6. Bake at 160 c for about 25 minutes.

Crunchy Potato Wedges

Sarida prepared these for us. Good job!

Original recipe

http://australian.food.com/recipe/crunchy-potato-wedges-203668

My Crunchy Potato Wedges Recipe

Ingredients

• 12 potatoes, cut into 8 wedges
• Vegetable oil
• 1/2 cup bread crumbs
• 4 tbsp fresh chives
• 3 cloves garlic, crushed or grated
• 2 tbsp fresh rosemary, chopped
• salt and pepper

Preparation

1. In a large bowl, toss potatoes in oil.
2. Mix together bread crumbs, chives, garlic, rosemary, and salt and pepper.
3. Toss all together.
4. Place potatoes on a baking sheet sprayed with non-stick spray.
5. Bake about 40 minutes at 200 c, until done and crispy.

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Indonesian Style Shabbat

I didn't know where to start this week, so I  did a search on the best food in the world. The site I opened listed rendang as number 1. Rendang is usually prepared from beef. SInce the meat in Israel is not very good, I found a chicken rendang recipe. All the food was tasty but  I am not sure if rendang is the best food in the world. 
Sarida arrived home this week. A friend of hers came to see Israel and joined us for Shabbat. I think he was hoping for typical Israeli food but seemed to enjoy our custom. 
We invited friends from the moshav to join us for lunch and they brought 3 of their kids.

Jewish Life and History

Today there are 20 Jews in Indonesia! Jews arrived in Indonesia when it was held by the Dutch.  Between World War I and World War II, the Jewish population reached its peak at 2000. The Jews suffered under Japanese occupation and were sent to labor camps. After World War II, most of the Jews left emigrating to Australia, America, and Israel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Indonesia

http://www.insideindonesia.org/weekly-articles-104-apr-june-2011/being-jewish-in-indonesia-17071972

Food

Friday Night Dinner

Soto Ayam (Chicken Soup)
Urap
Satay (Chicken on skewers)


Prepared for 10.

Soyto Ayam (Chicken Soup) Recipe 1  

Delicious soup. 
We grow lemon grass and often use it in tea. This was the first time I cooked with it.


Original Recipes
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/dining/072lrex.html
http://indonesiaeats.com/soto-ayam-lamongan-chicken-soup/
http://beelittlefood.blogspot.co.il/2011/10/soto-ayam-classic-indonesian-aromatic.html

My Soto Ayam Recipe

Ingredients

• Chicken
• 1 stalk lemon grass with leaves
• 1 tsp peppercorn
• 1/2 tsp cumin seed
• 1/4 cup coriander
• 5 shallots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 sliced leek
• Cooked noodles

Preparation 

1. Cook chicken in pot with lemon grass, salt and pepper.
2. When cooked, remove chicken to cool
3. In food processor, make a paste from peppercorn, cumin, coriander, shallots, garlic, turmeric, and ginger
4. Add spices and leeks to broth, bring to a boil and then simmer about 15 minutes.
5. Remove chicken from bones and stir fry.
6. Prepare noodles.

Store broth, chicken, and noodles, and eggs separately.  When ready to serve, heat soup with chicken and noodles.

Urap

This is a mix of steamed vegetables with a sweet sauce.  I served it in place of our usual salad.   

I prepared the vegetables and sauce and stored them separately until I put them on the warmer together.

Original Recipe

http://asiarecipe.com/indoveg.html#coconut

My Urap Recipe

Ingredients

I wrote some suggested quantities here. I was very inexact and just prepared a lot of vegetables. 

• 8 oz green beans
• 8 oz sprouts
• 6 carrots
• 1/2 head cabbage
• 1 cup grated coconut
• 1 onion chopped
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 2 tsp soy sauce
• juice of one lemon or lime (preferably lime if available)

Preparation 

1. Trim ends and cut green beans into bite size pieces and steam until just tender. Place in cool water, drain, and set aside.
2. Pour boiling water over the sprouts, then ice cold water. Drain and set aside.
3. Cut carrots into slices and steam until tender. Place in cool water, drain, and set aside.
4. Cut cabbage, steam briefly. Place in cool water, drain, and set aside.
5. Mix onion, coconut, brown sugar, soy sauce, and lemon juice. Set this aside too
6. Before serving, place vegetables in a pan and cover with the sauce.
7. Heat briefly on the warmer.

Satay

This is chicken pieces on a skewer, grilled and served with a peanut sauce. 
Eli grilled the chicken for us an hour or so before Shabbat so it would not be dry when I served it. 
Original Recipes
http://www.pbs.org/parents/kitchenexplorers/2011/11/01/indonesian-chicken-satay-with-peanut-sauce/
http://allrecipes.com/recipe/indonesian-satay/

My Satay Recipe

Ingredients

• 6 chicken breasts, cut into pieces
• 2 shallots
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1 root of lemon grass
• 1 hot chili pepper, stem and seeds removed
• 1/4 cup fresh coriander
• 2 tbsp cumin
• 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 2 tbsp vegetable oil
• 1 tbsp oil
• 2 cloves garlic, grated
• 6 tbsp peanut butter
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 cup coconut milk

Preparation 

1. Prepare chicken.
1. Process shallots, garlic, lemon grass, chili pepper, coriander, cumin, soy sauce, and tbsp vegetable oil.
2. Marinate chicken in sauce in refrigerator for several hours.
3. Place on skewers and grill.
2. Prepare peanut butter sauce:
1. Saute garlic in oil.
2. Add remaining ingredients except lemon.
3. Bring to a light boil and then simmer. The sauce should be thick.
4. Cool and add lemon.
5. Warm the sauce before serving.

Shabbat Lunch

Tahu_Gjerot (Fried Tofu)
Gado Gado
Chicken Rendang

Prepared for 15.

Fried Tofu: Tahu-Gejrot

This is served with noodles or sprouts. I added it to noodles and to a couple of salads that I served.

Original Recipe

http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Tahu-Gejrot-_hot-Tofu_-Recipeza

My Fried Tofu: Tahu_Gejrot Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 chunks tofu
• oil for frying
• 3 red onions
• 3 cloves garlic
• 2 tbsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 1/4 cup water

Preparation 

1. Fry tofu.
2. In food processor, process other ingredient into almost a paste.
3. In a pan, place tofu and paste.
4. Store  and then heat on warmer before serving.

Gado Gado

Gado Gado consists of steamed, blanced, or boiled vegetables, served with peanut sauce. I served the peanut sauce on the side.


Original Recipe
http://www.mediterrasian.com/delicious_recipes_peanut_sauce.htm

My Gado Gado Recipe

Ingredients

.Various vegetables, steamed, boiled, or blanched. You want the vegetables lightly cooked.

• 1 tbsp canola oil
• 2 cloves garlic minced
• 1 cup coconut milk
• 1 cup water
• 6 tbsp peanut butter
• 4 tbsp soy sauce
• 4 tbsp brown sugar
• juice of one lemon

Preparation 

1. Prepare vegetables and set aside. 
2. For peanut sauce:
1. Saute garlic in oil.
2. Add remaining ingredients except lemon and bring to a boil
3. Simmmer 15 minutes
4. Add lemon

Rendang

So here is it, rendang. As I mentioned in the introduction, this is chicken rendang. Good, but not the best food in the world. Maybe meat randang prepared by an authentic Indonesian cook is better than chicken rendang prepared by a Jewish mother for Shabbat.

Original Recipes

http://www.indochinekitchen.com/recipes/chicken-rendang

http://rasamalaysia.com/beef-rendang-recipe-rendang-daging/

http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaicurrydishes/r/rendangcurry.htm

My Chicken Rendang

Ingredients

• 17 thigh and leg
• 3 lemon grass, white only
• 8 shallots
• 6 cloves garlic
• 2 inch ginger
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp brown sugar
• coriander 
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1/2 tsp cloves
• 2 red chili peppers, seeds removed
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp cumin
• 1 can coconut milk

Preparation 

1. In food processor, process lemon grass, shallots, garlic, ginger, brown sugar, nutmeg, and cumin.
2. Add spice mix to cocunut  milk heat with cinamon stick and corriander.
3. Add chicken. I cooked this in several batches. After each batch of chicken was done, I removed it. I did not remake the sauce each time.

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