22. Chicken Sambal

Ingredients :
1 10 10 5 3 cm 2 cm 1 tablespoon 1 piece	chicken dried red chilies shallots cloves garlic piece ginger piece galangal flour tamarind salt and pepper to taste oil for deep frying
Method : Clean the chicken and cut into 8. Mix with the flour to rid of the smell. Wash and drain well. Season the chicken with the pounded ginger and galangal. Heat the oil and fry the chicken pieces until slightly golden. Pound finely the chilies, shallots, galangal, garlic and the remaining ginger. Remove half of the oil and fry the pounded ingredients until fragrant. Add the tamarind salt. Put in 1 cup water and bring to boil. Stir constantly for a few minutes then add the chicken pieces. Mix well. Simmer till chicken is tender. Serve with plain boiled rice. Serves 6 - 8