Manok Pansoh Recipe
Chicken and lemongrass cooked in a bamboo log.
Servings Prep Time
4 240minutes
Cook Time
360minutes
Servings Prep Time
4 240minutes
Cook Time
360minutes
Ingredients
Instructions
  1. Roughly chop lemongrass and red chillies. Slice ginger and galangal. Quarter onion.
  2. Grind garlic with ginger, galangal, onion and half the chillies to a coarse paste.
  3. Transfer the ground paste into a bowl and add 1 tbsp water and mix well.
  4. Crush lemongrass and the remaining chillies in a mortar with a pestle. Transfer into the same bowl, add salt and mix well.
  5. Add chicken pieces and mix well. Keep in the refrigerator to marinate for 3-4 hours.
  6. Roughly tear banana leaf into 4 pieces.
  7. Preheat oven to180ยบ C.
  8. Stuff bamboo piece with the marinated chicken, seal each end with a piece of banana leaf and tie a twine around it to secure the leaf.
  9. Place the stuffed bamboo vertically in a cake tin, place it the preheated oven and cook for an hour.
  10. Remove from oven, unwrap the bamboo, remove chicken and place on a serving plate and serve immediately.