From My Mum's Recipe

Yesterday I tried out one recipe from the old lady's book. A very simple one called Ayam Masak Ros.

It is a chicken soup.  With not so much spices.

It makes a mildly fragrant, woodsy, comforting and wholesome kind of soup, with uncomplicated taste.  Little oil.

Ayam Masak Ros

Recipe

1/2 chicken pieces
2 tsp of coriander seeds.
1 tsp of pepper corns
4 shallots
4 garlic
1/2 inch ginger
6 cloves. 3 pounded.
Salt

Pound coriander seeds, pepper corns and 3 cloves with ginger

Boil chicken in water in a pot. Water just above the chicken, not so much

Pound the shallots and garlic.  Fry with remaining cloves in a little oil.  Add the other spices and fry till fragrant.  Add all this to the boiling chicken. Salt to taste.  You can omit oil all together. Just pound and add to the pot.