Chicken with Salted Soy beans Sauce a.k.a Ayam Siram Tauco

Last time I went shopping with Kak Pepy I got so many stuff. I took a chance to ask her about a lot of cooking ingredients term in English. One of them is tauco. Tauco or salted soy beans in English is one of main ingredient to make Indonesian frog soup calls Swike. Some of people probably think it's bizarre to eat frog. Frog is edible, that's the thing. It tasted better than chicken. And don't worry, of course we peeled off their skin before we eat it. They are high in cholesterol though so just be cautious with that. Anyway, I'm not going to make Swike today, but in order to try my salted soy beans, I'm making chicken with salted soy beans. As a matter of fact, salted soy beans which I found in here is terribly salty than the one I grew up with. Javanese tauco is sweet and salty in a same time so it's quite good. But life is go on, I still can use it, just don't put too much. So here it is the recipe:

Ingredients:

250 gr chicken breast, sliced thinly

1 egg, lightly beaten

1/2 cup of all purpose flour

1 tsp black pepper

1/2 tsp salt

A generous handful of bean sprouts

Sauce:

3 tbs salted soy beans

2 cloves of garlic, minced it

1/2 tsp white pepper powder

2 cm of ginger, bruised it

4 tsp sugar

1 tbs lemon juice derived from squeezed lemon

1 tbs sweet soy sauce

1 tsb corn starch, dissolved in 1/2 cup water

3/4 cup water

Direction:

Mix the flour with black pepper and salt.

Coat the sliced chicken alternately with egg and flour and deep fry it. Set aside.

Using a skillet, saute the garlic, white pepper and ginger until fragrant. Add water, salted soy beans, sugar, sweet soy sauce, lemon juice. Let it boil. Then add dissolved corn starch, stir it evenly until bubbling.

Arrange the chicken and sprinkle with bean sprouts. Pour the salted soy beans sauce on top of it.

Serving 2-3 people