🍲 Arisa (Malaysian Blended Chicken)

Malaysian · 12 ingredients · 11 steps

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Arisa is a unique dish only found in state of Johor, Malaysia. It is very rare nowadays, normally only served to royalty and social elites of Johor at formal functions and celebrations. This rarity reflects its passing as an oral tradition between mother to daughter.

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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • 2 young chickens weighing 1.2 kg
  • 500 g oats
  • 4 red onions
  • 15 cloves garlic
  • 15 cardamom seeds
  • 10 whole cloves
  • 50 mm piece cinnamon stick
  • 100 mm fresh ginger
  • 2 tablespoons white pepper
  • Salt to taste
  • 340 g ghee
  • Onions, chopped

Method

  1. Clean the chicken, and cut into fourths.
  2. Place the chicken in a stock pot.
  3. Blend the ginger and garlic. Cut red onion into quarters, and put the blended ingredients and onion into the stock pot.
  4. Add 12 glasses of water, salt, cardamon seeds, cinnamon sticks and cloves.
  5. Bring the chicken to boil.
  6. Take out the chicken, debone it, and blend it into puree.
  7. Sieve the chicken stock, bring it to boil again, add in the chicken puree, oats, white pepper, and salt to taste.
  8. Stir nonstop until it thickens. Add in half of the ghee, and stir until the mixture is smooth.
  9. Pour the mixture into a square mold, and make a depression in the middle.
  10. Use the rest of the ghee to fry the onions. Place the fried onions into the depression.
  11. Sprinkle additional fried onions on top to garnish.
Where this came from. Adapted from Arisa (Malaysian Blended Chicken) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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