Ayam Tauco (Chicken Cooked with Salted Yellow Beans)

• 1 md Roasting chicken
• 2 Onions
• 4 Cloves garlic
• 2 ts Dark soya sauce
• 3 tb Tauco (salted yellow beans)
• 1 ts Brown sugar
• 1 ts Paprika (optional)
• 1 /2 ts Chilli powder
• 1 ts Ground ginger
• 2 tb Vegetable oil
• 1 /2 c Tamarind water
• 1 c Water

This recipe calls for 'tauco' which can be either salted black beans

or salted yellow beans.Either can be found in a Chinese market as

salted black bean or salted yellow bean sauce.Or you can track down

Indonesian salted yellow beans and smash 'em up yourself.Thai

markets carry them.

Cut the chicken into serving pieces; wash, and dry.Slice the onions.

Pound the garlic and the tauco into a smooth paste.

Fry the onions in the oil for half a minute.Add the tauco, then the

chicken.Stir well, so that every part of the chicken is coated with

tauco.Put in the soya sauce and the rest of the ingredients.

Cover, and simmer very gently for 45 minutes.Then take the lid off,

and cook for a further 5 minutes to reduce the sauce.Serve hot.

Makes 4 servings.

From "Indonesian Food and Cookery", Sri Owen, Prospect Books, London,

1986." ISBN 0-907325-29-7.

Posted by Stephen Ceideberg; March 1 1993.