How to Cook Red Chili Chicken at Home

Our easy-to-follow guide will walk you through the steps to create a delicious Red Chili Chicken right in your own kitchen. With readily available ingredients and simple instructions, you'll be able to cook a homemade Red Chili Chicken that's sure to impress. Red Chili Chicken is a spicy dish that can be found in several regions in Indonesia. This dish is similar to Balado Chicken, the difference is in the method of making the spicy sauce. For Red Chili Chicken, the spicy sauce is blended first, then sauteed until fragrant. For balado chicken, the spicy sauce doesn't need to be blended, just needs to be stir-fried. Balado is a spicy red sauce mixed with chunks of red chili sauce, which can be mixed with a variety of other foods. Meat or vegetables that can be made with this Balado sauce include beef, chicken, shrimp, squid, eggplant, eggs, potatoes, etc. For meat, usually, it has to be sauteed first so that the meat is cooked, then mixed with Balado sauce. At first, the chicken must be fried first, then mixed and cooked with red chili sauce. The meat needed for Red Chili Chicken is chicken with bones, it can be chicken thighs/chicken breast/chicken wings. Before the chicken is fried, usually the chicken meat must be marinated first with lime and salt. Furthermore, the main ingredients of Red Chili Chicken are shallots, garlic, red chilies, and some spices. These spices must be blended and sauteed until it gives a nice aroma. Check out the Red Chili Chicken recipe below along with the steps.