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One Pot Balinese Chicken

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One Pot Balinese Chicken…. oh yes this recipe is a quick dinner idea that’s a complete meal all made in ONE POT! The combination of ingredients is magical – I love how it is roasted till golden!

Cooking in one pot makes this chicken extra juicy and tangy, it’s incredible. Serve it with rice and pour over the golden thick gravy.

Balinese Chicken baked in one pot

                            One Pot Balinese Chicken

Technically I think you might say this is a two pot chicken if you count cooking the rice. Just for arguments sake let’s not count that rice because you are going to find this Balinese Chicken truly stacks up in flavour.  The pure fact it’s made in one pot is just an extra bonus.

Mix it together and pop it in the oven. You’ll come back to the most intensely flavoured Chicken, and it will become a favourite.

You can add vegetables if you like, there’s plenty of sauce in this recipe to smother them in.

Balinese Chicken baked in one pot

The secret to getting that tangy Balinese Flavour

This version of Balinese chicken, is simple enough that you don’t have to go hunting all over town for ingredients. It combines ginger, garlic, turmeric, lemongrass and lime leaves to create the AMAZING mouth smacking flavours of our favourite Indonesian Island.

Chicken and Pork are some of the staple meats in Balinese cuisine and these proteins work incredibly well with the traditional spices and herbs used in this part of the world.

For your own tropical night in give this Chicken a try.

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Traditional herbs and spices used in Bali

This recipe uses some of the traditional ingredients that are used in Balinese cooking but there are lots of others too including galangal, shrimp paste, tomatoes and palm sugar. There’s even a Balinese 8 spice made with white pepper, black pepper, coriander, cumin, clove, nutmeg, sesame seed and candlenuts.

This is my special Ayam Guling or Balinese Roast Chicken cooked in one pot.

Remember the secret to cooking this and other “curries” like it, is to cook off the base ingredients well first. Cooking them releases the water out of the ingredients and caramelises them making a sweeter rounder flavour

One Pot Balinese Chicken

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This version of Balinese chicken, is simple enough that you don't have to go hunting all over town for ingredients. It's tangy and delicious and one pot wonderful. Watch the video to see how easy it is.
One Pot Balinese Chicken
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Course Main course, Maincourse, One pot cooking, video
Cuisine Asian Fusion
Keyword Balinese, One pot
Servings 6 people

Ingredients
Unit:
  • 6 whole Chicken cutlets skin on bone in
  • 40 ml oil
Flavour Paste
  • 200 gm onion chopped into dice
  • 30 gm garlic 6 cloves, crushed
  • 80 gm ginger grated or chopped fine
  • 1 tablespoon turmeric
  • 200 ml tomato passata plain tomato puree
  • 1 tablespoon chilli paste unsweetened, masterfoods
  • 2 whole limes zested
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 20 ml Soy Sauce light soy ( not dark) 1 tablespoon
Other ingredients to finish the sauce
  • 20 ml Ketchup Manis Sweet Soy Sauce 1 Tablespoon
  • 400 ml coconut cream 1 can
  • 80 ml lime juice 4 tablespoons
  • 1 stick lemongrass cut into sections
  • 6 whole lime leaves

Instructions

  1. Set the oven to 190 C. You will need an ovenproof pot to bake your chicken in.
  2. Put the onion, garlic, ginger, turmeric, chilli paste, sugar, soy sauce, lime zest and tomato puree into put a food processor and pulse into a paste. (You could also use a stick blender for this. Just make a nice smooth paste. This will form your sauce)
  3. Pour the paste into a bowl and add the 6 pieces of chicken turning to coat in the marinade while you get the other ingredients ready.
  4. Heat the pot you will use to bake the chicken. Add the oil and then shake off excess marinade from each piece of chicken and add one by one to the pot. Sear on both sides till golden and coloured. Take out of the pot and set aside once done. Remember this is just to seal and colour the outside
  5. Add the flavour paste to the pot and stir while it is cooking. The paste needs to cook out. (Cooking the paste cooks out the water and then caramelises and sweetens it.) This will take about 5- 8 minutes on a medium to high heat. It will begin to darken and smell fragrant. Add the sweet soy sauce and stir in well for 1 minutes. Don't let the paste catch on the bottom. Reduce the heat if you need to.
  6. Pour in the coconut, lime juice then add the lemon grass, lime leaves and a small pinch of salt. Stir well.
  7. Return the chicken to the pot letting it peak above the sauce to further brown and colour and bake without a lid for around 40 minutes. Test one of the thighs by piecing with a knife. The juices should run clear.
  8. Serve with rice. You can also add chopped roasted macadamia nuts or peanuts and crispy fried shallots ( from Asian supermarkets)

Recipe Notes

I use a Le Creuset baking pot but you can use any thick based baking / cooking pot with high sides about 24-28 cm /10-12 in. A roasting pan that is flat and large is not suitable because it is too wide for the sauce to bubble around the chicken.

You can use the chicken straight away without the need to marinade for a long time. Equally you could marinade for a few hours or even overnight if you like.

You can also use a whole chicken or boneless pieces. A whole chicken will take around 60 minutes (test the leg for when the juices run clear. The boneless pieces will take less time. Around 30 minutes for thighs and approx 20 minutes for breasts ( depending on there size) The recipe is best though with chicken on the bone ( its juicier)

If the bottom of the pot is very darkened or burnt once the chicken is sealed it is better to use a piece of kitchen paper to clean. Add a bit more oil, heat and add the paste after that.

It is important to cook out the paste well till the colour changes and it smells fragrant.

Never save part of the marinade. It must be cooked out as it has had raw chicken in it.

Nutrition Facts
One Pot Balinese Chicken
Amount Per Serving (250g)
Calories 283 Calories from Fat 144
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16g 25%
Saturated Fat 4g 20%
Polyunsaturated Fat 5g
Monounsaturated Fat 7g
Cholesterol 104mg 35%
Sodium 347mg 14%
Potassium 198mg 6%
Total Carbohydrates 12g 4%
Dietary Fiber 1g 4%
Sugars 4g
Protein 55g 110%
Vitamin A 1%
Vitamin C 16%
Calcium 2%
Iron 9%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

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    • Hi Eva, although the ketchup manis adds a bit of caramel salt depth you can certainly make this without it. It will still be very good.

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  3. Certainly a chicken fusion I’ll try – want to taste the interplay of kecap manis I use often with the lemongrass and unexpected chilli paste, the coconut blending it into an obviously harmonious whole. Also wanting to see the difference the use of limes in more than one format makes to the whole . . . looking forwards to the cook 🙂 !

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    • Hi Eha
      How are you?
      Thanks for your comment. The overall flavour is quite bright and tangy with both zest and juice.
      It’s funny you should mention the chilli paste as I used that in place of fresh chilli for two reasons. I always buy fresh chilli but before I can ever use they turn into shrivelled flavourless socks, so instead I used jarred chilli- which I always have as a backup. That way I also thought the heat would be the same each time it was made. I hope you like it
      Tania

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    • Hi Kathryn so nice to hear from you. Wouldn’t it be nice to just go to Bali and eat it there. At any rate it is a flavour packed recipe that will take you half way to Bali at home. I am just about to read your last post about venison and pork.

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