Love To Bake Inche Kabin (Nonya Fried Chicken) - Penang Mff #3


Inche Kabin, no affair how it's spelled (yes, in that location are many variations to its spelling- Enche Cabin, Inchi Kaybin.. or whatever!) is a Penang Nonya dish. Said to hold out invented yesteryear the Hainanese chefs who used to run for the rich nyonya families inward Penang.

I get-go had a gustation of this dish inward a java house, haha, yeah, xx years back, java houses were everywhere. It's non similar Starbucks that form of stuff, exactly 1 goes to these places to direct maintain sundaes in addition to chicken chop, railroad train dejeuner in addition to in all probability instruct that loving cup of instant java amongst sachets of  creamer in addition to sugar. I ordered this dish because the advert sounds special, I expected something Japanese, LOL.




But when it came, yikes! It's fried chicken in addition to it tasted Malaysian! Hahaha. I was thence taken yesteryear surprise.
That was me, inward my teens, during the days were nosotros know aught of unusual nutrient unless 1 reads tonnes of recipe books from all genre.

The listing of spices is a flake tiresome to 'compile'. I don't hap stock of spice powders exactly I direct maintain an almost  complete collection of mutual whole spices. So, I grind my own. But you lot tin e'er role shop bought powders :)


Inchi Kabin
Reference: Nonya Flavours 

1/2 chicken (750gm), cutting into seize amongst teeth sized pieces

Spice Paste
ii shallots
1  tsp chilli powder
1/2 Tbsp coriander powder
1/2 tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp fennel powder
1/8 tsp clove powder
1/4 tsp cinnamon powder
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
1/2 tsp dark pepper powder
1 tsp salt
ii tsp sugar
fifty ml kokosnoot milk

Dipping Sauce
1/2 Tbsp mustard
1+1/2 Tbsp worcestershire  sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp lime juice
1/2  tsp  light soy sauce
1 cherry-red chilli, sliced

*For the spices, I used whole spices in addition to milled them fine. Double the total for coriander, cumin, fennel in addition to dark pepper. Whole spices when soil are reduced to most one-half of the master copy amount. Toast the whole spices earlier grinding. I too used ii dried chillies instead of shop bought chilli powder.

1. Prepare spice paste. Grind the hardest ingredients first, in addition to thence gradually add together inward the softer ingredients. Blend until it turns to a fine paste.
2. Marinate chicken amongst the spice glue for iii hours.
3. Deep pocket-size fry the chicken pieces on medium oestrus until cooked in addition to slightly golden. Drain the chicken, plow upward the oestrus of the oil, hold off until the crude oil is real hot in addition to pocket-size fry the chicken pieces a minute time.
4. Serve amongst the dipping sauce.


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