Chicken rica-rica turns out to be a special dish from Indonesia, to be precise in the Manado area, North Sulawesi. The word rica itself means ‘spicy’ or ‘chilli’. Besides that, making rica-rica chicken yourself is very easy, you know, the spicy taste that is typical in this one dish makes people like it.
Making basil rica-rica chicken certainly prioritizes the main ingredients, namely chicken, chili, and basil which makes the taste even more fragrant and delicious. Have you ever made rica-rica chicken at home? You can make this one dish on the menu during the day, you know.
If you want to make easy and practical home-style rica-rica chicken. Here is a recipe and how to make a spicy and practical home-style basil rica-rica chicken:
Ingredients:
– 1 chicken, cut into 12 parts.
– ½ tsp salt.
– 1 tbsp lime juice.
– 100 ml cooking oil.
– 2 cm ginger, crushed
– 10 pieces of lime leaves.
– 4 stalks of lemon grass, white part
– 100 ml of water.
– 1 tsp salt
– 3 tbsp lime juice.
– 50 gr basil leaves.
– Coarse Seasoning Ingredients:
– 10 red bird’s eye chilies
– 100 gr shallots.
– 3 cloves of garlic
– 150 gr red chili.
How to Make Chicken:
1. Marinate the chicken with salt and lime juice, wait 30 minutes.
2. Then prepare the cooking oil, heat it and sauté it with the coarse spices, ginger, lime leaves and lemon grass until fragrant.
3. Then cook the chicken, stir everything until it changes color then add water and salt, cook until the chicken is cooked.
4. Add lime juice and basil leaves, stir everything thoroughly and then remove and serve.
5. That’s an easy recipe for home-style basil leaf rica-rica chicken that you can try.
Source: Fimela
