Ayam Bakar Sambal Pelecing (Grilled Chicken with Pelecing Chili Sauce)

This Spicy Chicken Dish Recipe is adapted from "The Bali Cookbook: Over 100 Delicious Recipes from Bali's Most Famous Chef"








Ingredients

• 1 chicken, about 2 3/4pounds
• 4 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Salt
• 3/4 cup sambal pelecing (recipe follows)

Directions

1. Cut the chicken in half lengthways and rub both halves with 2 tablespoons oil and some salt.
2. Grill the chicken 3/4 cooked.
3. Fry the chicken until fully cooked.
4. Place the chicken on a dish.
   
5. Heat the remainder of the oil in a wok and fry the sambal pelecing for about 3 minutes.
6. Mix the cooked chicken with the sambal.
   
7. Serve with rice.
   

Sambal Pelecing (Pelecing Chili Sauce)


Ingredients

• 2 medium shallots, peeled
• 5 garlic cloves, peeled
• About 3/4cup long red chiles, destemmed
• About 30 thai chiles, de-stemmed
• 1 beefsteak tomato
• 1 teaspoon roasted dried shrimp paste
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon granulated sugar
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Juice of 2 kaffir limes

Directions

1. Blanch the shallots, garlic and chiles for 1 minute in boiling, salted water.
2. Drain.
3. Chop them with the tomato into small pieces and transfer everything to a mortar.
4. Add the shrimp paste, salt and sugar, and pound to a fine paste.
5. Heat the oil in a wok, and fry the sambal.
6. Just before serving, sprinkle the lime juice over the sambal.

The recipe is adapted from "The Bali Cookbook," by Lonny Gerungan

Image source:
http://www.geocities.com/claudie_lum/Ayam/pelecing_ayam.htm