Stewed Chicken With Coconut Milk (Opor Ayam)

Ingredients :

1 chicken, cut into pieces

1½ pints thick coconut milk, 1 pint thin coconut milk

10 shallots

3 cloves of garlic

5 candlenuts

1 tbsp. ground coriander

1 tsp. cumin powder

1" piece galangal

1 tsp. merica

1 bay leaf

1 stalk lemon grass

½ tbsp. gula Jawa (palmsugar)

½ tbsp. salt.

How to make: 

Clean the chicken and cut into pieces. Grind all the spices: shallots, garlic, candlenuts, coriander, cumin, pepper and salt. Put the taste into the thick coconut milk, add the sugar, galangal and bay leaf, and boil. Add the chicken pieces and pour the thin coconut milk and simmer until tender and gravy is thick, stirring constantly.