Peking duck pancakes
Peking duck is eaten in a thin pancake that is filled with crispy vegetables, such as cucumber and spring onions...
Category: Chicken and Duck dishes
“Indonesian chickens roam freely outdoors and pick their daily menu themselves. They are less meaty and less tender than the chicken in this country, but various preparation methods overcome this shortcoming in a surprising way. “, translated from Beb Vuyk’s Groot Indonesisch Kookboek, page 231.
Devilish chicken
The days are already much shorter and next week the temperatures in the Netherlands will drop. Time for a devilish...
Green Chicken
This is Beb Vuyk’s recipe for green chicken, or ajam bumbu hidjau from Padang. The ‘green’ in the chicken is...
Ajam Pangeh -Chicken in Coconut sauce
This is Ajam Pangeh: chicken in coconut sauce from Bantam, a province in West Java. The dish sounds delicious to...
Chicken Meatballs (Perkedel Ajam)
Chicken meatballs: crispy from the outside and juicy and tender on the inside. This perkedel ajam is not difficult to...
Lembaran of Chicken
This dish resembles the chicken kalio in terms of spices. Yet this lembaran with chicken is a bit richer in...
Liver in Seasoned Sauce
I make this lampang lumbuk today with heart instead of liver. Liver is ‘hati’ in Indonesian. Hati means not only...
Kalio with Chicken
A juicy chicken in a slightly spicy sauce: this chicken recipe from Beb Vuyk is called kalio with chicken. When...
Ayam Rujak – Chicken in Spicy Coconut Broth
This chicken in spicy coconut broth is called an ayam rujak in Indonesia. The word ‘rujak’ is normally used for...
Chicken in Kecap Sauce (Soy Sauce)
This is a chicken in kecap sauce recipe, or as I know it: Ajam Kecap. We try to eat less...
Duck with Chinese pancakes
This recipe is similar to Peking duck. It contains the same ingredients and sauces. Making Peking duck, with that shiny...
Gulai Ajam
This Gulai Ajam is chicken in a rich curry-like sauce. This sauce is seasoned with galangal (laos), ketumbar (coriander) and...
Minced Chicken in Oven Dish
You can make minced chicken meat yourself (as Beb describes in her recipe). But grinding meat yourself doesn’t make it...
Lemper – Sticky Rice Snack
Lemper is perhaps the best Indonesian snack I know. In Beb Vuyk her book (I make all her recipes from...
Chicken from Ternate
A creamy but spicy chicken in a reduced coconut sauce; I like ;-). This chicken from Ternate recipe is originally from...
Chicken Makassar
A nice succulent chicken dish; that’s what I’m looking forward to today. There are drumsticks on sale in my local supermarket...
Ayam Kari – Indonesian Chicken Curry
Pasar Color (Indonesian foodmarket) at the Huishoudbeurs 2017! The largest lifestyle event for women in the Netherlands. Pisang Susu’s cooking...
271 Steamed Chicken (Manuk Dang – Lombok)
A juicy and tender chicken dish is truly delicious. Beb Vuyk knows how to accomplish this dish: just steam it!...
82 Sambal goreng chicken
The last sentence in Beb’s recipe for this sambal goreng chicken appeals to me, “This dish is slightly moist”. That...
Video: How to make soto ayam?
Every week I make a ‘how to’ classic Indonesian recipe video. Today I make soto ayam! Go to soto ayam...
