#138 : Baked Chicken, peanut butter flavoured : recipe #98

I am tired of my own cooking, I am tired of experimenting... so today I looked through an "old" cook book and found Ayam Bakar recipe... however, I did not have the ingredients ....so whether I liked it or not, this is another experimental recipe....

Ingredients:
1 medium chicken, fat and skin removed, cut into big pieces.
dark soya sauce
chicken stock powder
8 pcs thai basil leaves
white pepper
2 tsp peanut butter
salt
3 inches cinnamon stick
4 pcs "asam aur-aur"
olive oil
water
blended ingredients:
2 fresh green chillies
1 large fresh red chillies
1 inch ginger
1 lemon grass
8 shallots
3 cloves garlics

steps:
1) Heat oil in wok, add in the cinnamon stick, blended ingredients and peanut butter. fry till fragrant.
2) Add in the chicken, the asam, chicken stock powder and a little water. Stir to mix well and cover the wok.
3) Once the chicken is half cooked, transfer the chicken pieces into a prepared pan, pour a little olive oil on top of the chicken and bake at 200 degrees till cook. Leave the dilute gravy in the wok.
4) While the chicken is in the oven, work on the gravy: add the dark soya sauce, basil leaves , more stock and lots of white pepper powder. Simmer the gravy till it thickens. Adjust its seasoning.
5) When the chicken is cooked, pour the gravy onto the chicken and baked for another 3-5 minutes. Dish up.