Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Betutu is an Indonesian-Balinese dish of steamed or roasted chicken or duck in rich bumbu betutu (betutu spice mix). This highly seasoned and spiced dish is a popular dish in Bali and Lombok, Indonesia. An even spicier version is available using extra-spicy sauce made from uncooked (raw) onion slices mixed with red chili peppers and coconut oil.
Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices) using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices):
- Take 1/2 free range chicken (rub with salt and lime for 30 min)
- Prepare Blended spices
- Get 1 thumb of ginger
- Make ready 1 thumb of galangal
- Take Small pcs of turmeric
- Take 5 candlenut
- Prepare 3 pcs lemongrass
- Make ready 7 shallots
- Prepare 4 garlic cloves
- Get Oil
- Prepare Sugar
- Get Salt
- Get Roughly chopped spices
- Get 2 pcs lemongrass
- Make ready 5 bay leaves
- Get 3 lime leaves
- Prepare 3 shallots
- Get Additional
- Prepare Banana leaves for cover
- Take Aluminium foil
Recipe: Ayam betutu - Balinese grilled chicken. Ayam betutu is made of chicken with spices inside. The spices consist of turmeric, ginger, nutmeg, galangal, onion, garlic, cassava or salam leaves and chilies. All these spices are mixed and put inside the chicken.
Instructions to make Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices):
- Blend all the blended spices
- Heat a pan, sauteé the blended spice until fragrant. Afterwards, bring the roughly chopped spices in until it's cooked.
- Rinse the chicken well, place it on the banana leaves, then rub it with the cooked spices. Wrap in the leaves and let it cool in the fridge for minimum an hour (better overnight).
- Next, wrap the banana leaves with aluminium foil and steam the chicken until it's tender (mine roughly 1 hour).
That is why it is called Ayam Betutu. If you ever been to Bali, there's a big chance you have tasted chicken betutu. Authentically, chicken betutu was cooked by smothering and filling whole chicken with seasoning. And then, the chicken was wrapped in banana leaf, put into a hole in the ground and covered by rice husk charcoal and cooked for hours. This ceremonial Balinese dish comes in two versions: the chicken-based ayam betutu, or the traditional duck version that goes under the name bebek betutu.
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