Dinner Tonight: Make-Believe Opor
One of my favourite Indonesian dish (and it doesn’t take much for a dish to be my favourite) is opor ayam (chicken in coconut gravy). Unfortunately, I have yet to master the recipe for the real opor, but until that happens, I shall settle with the ready made spice mix from Indofood. Another plus from using the ready made spice mix is of course less preparation time, which nicely fits my daily schedule.
In goes some chopped onions, and not so long after, followed by small pieces of chicken (I cheated and took a shortcut, by using small cut chicken fillet instead of whole chicken). Once the chicken changed colour, the spice mix is stirred in and I also added a wee bit of coconut milk again (although the spice mix claims that it already includes coconut milk, but I always add some more). The make-believe opor was served with hardboiled eggs and glass noodles. It took less than 20 minutes to prepare, and even less to clean the bowl. 