# Garang Asem

Garang Asem is an easy and delicious restaurant-style dish that you can make at home.

- Total time: 30 min
- Cuisine: Thai
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 5 pieces chicken
- 6 red onion
- 4 garlic
- 1 piece red tomato
- 1 piece green tomato / bilimbi
- bay leaves
- lemongrass
- galangal
- ginger
- salt
- chicken broth
- 350 ml coconut milk
- cayenne pepper
- shrimp paste
- palm sugar
- lime

## Instructions

1. Place banana leaf on the bottom of the rice cooker pot.
2. Add chicken, sliced red onions, sliced garlic, diced tomato, bay leaves, lemongrass, galangal, ginger, salt, chicken broth, and coconut milk.
3. Cover with banana leaf.
4. Cook for 30 minutes.
5. Grind cayenne pepper, shrimp paste, salt, and chicken broth with mortar and pestle.
6. Add tomato and palm sugar and grind again.
7. Add lime juice.
8. Pour the cooked chicken into a serving dish.
9. Serve with rice and sambal.

## Equipment

- rice cooker
- mortar and pestle

## Tips

- If you don't have bilimbi, you can use green tomatoes for the sour taste.
- Don't forget the shrimp paste for the sambal to add that extra oomph.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJyb-75Jt7Z/?igsh=cnBlcXNjNnExeG0=
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/4edd52da-e4b5-4e87-a9a1-7e76201ef501
- Extracted: 2025-05-29

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