Indonesian chicken recipe

I have never been to Indonesia (yet).
I have no Indonesian cookbooks.
It is about 20 years since I ate at an Indonesican restaurant in London.
But I have an illogical desire to eat an Indonesian chicken dish tomorrow night when Mrs Faz is out..
Any help?

What kind of chikkie dish is this? Fried??? What???

HERE From someone just like you (if you read the first paragraph)!

Sorry but that recipe doesn't sound authentic. Indonesians don't use ground ginger, garlic powder, cayenne pepper and peanut butter.

I still don't know what dish this is.

He didn't ask for an authentic dish...

Still!

I was just in indonesia last year and I can't really think of any particularly memorable chicken dishes. Don't get me wrong, the food was good but I'm drawing a blank when trying to think of a particular chicken dish that I would recommend.

Hah, myanmar, that reminds me.... mostly I ate thai green curry chicken when I was in Indonesia.

Smelly, to the contrary, Indonesian cooking uses peanut butter.

Ayam goreng ( fried chicken) or Kampong ( village ) chicken ( meaning free ranch ). Most of the chicken are skinny without much fat but just delicious eating with the skin on! All the Nasi Padang restaurants would have this in their menu.

Monique -- you and Barry were in Bali, right? Its a lovely spot and I hope to retire there with Mrs Myan (who is from Java) but it ain't your typical Indo experience.

Trust me, seppo. They don't. They make the peanut sauce from scratch ie. buying raw ground nuts, fry them in oil and then pound or process them until coarse or fine. That's where the peanut in the sauce come from.

What smelly says - it's what mrs myan does. I've not seen peanut butter on sale in Mata Hari yet.

Myan, where in Bali are you hoping to retire? And don't you think you should reconsider your handle?

Anywhere we can get a house with a swimming pool and ochard but there's another 25 years to go before this is possible. I'm too used to my handle!

Myanmar (or anyone else), do you happen to know what "opor" means?

Mrs myan tells me "Opor" in a recipe name implies the dish is quite mild. I don't know the direct translation.

Thanks! The opposite of "pedis" then?

Yes, the opposite of pedas.

I probably should have written pedas. I still haven't figured out what that's about. As far as I know in Malaysia they only use "pedas". I've heard in Indonesia they use "pedis" and "pedas" interchangeably (and in Indonesian cuisine in the Netherlands it's invariably "pedis"), but someone else told me "pedas" is the new spelling of "pedis". (So that ajam pedis is now ayam pedas.) An "a" instead of an "i" sounds unlikely for a spelling reform, especially for a language that is so phonetic, but what do I know. Any idea?

Can't help much! I know the Indonesians reformed their spelling to take it away from anything Dutch-influenced and then I was under the impression that Malaysia decided to reform its spelling to match the Indonesian version of the language (22 million Malaysians, 220 million Indonesians).

I don't really know enough about any of this though.

mrs myan always says pedas and told me to spell it that way.

I've got some malay or nonya recipes, but no indonesian cookbook about... they're all buried in a basement hundreds of miles away...

let me know if it would be of interest to you.

My Singapore Food cookbook says that Opor Ayam is "mild chicken curry". and a malaysian recipe... but I don't know a thing about the subject.

In the end I played safe. I cooked the chicken with chilllllllli and lemon grass (both from the garden), garlic and ginger. I finished it with lime juice, soy sauce and sugar, and sprinkled on some coriander leaves.