Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices) using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices):
- Get 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
- Get Small pcs of turmeric
- Make ready 5 candlenut
- Get 3 pcs lemongrass
- Prepare 7 shallots
- Get 4 garlic cloves
- Make ready Oil
- Get Sugar
- Prepare Salt
- Take Roughly chopped spices
- Get 2 pcs lemongrass
- Get 5 bay leaves
- Make ready 3 lime leaves
- Take 3 shallots
- Get Additional
- Get Banana leaves for cover
- Prepare Aluminium foil
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. That is why it is called Ayam Betutu. If you ever been to Bali, there's a big chance you have tasted chicken betutu.
Steps 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).
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. The whole animal is rubbed and stuffed with a mixture of local spices such as turmeric, ginger, pepper, chili, and shrimp paste. In Bali, ayam betutu (or it's more upmarket cousin - bebek betutu) is a real treat.
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