Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Betutu is the Balinese term for using a whole chicken marinated in rich aromatic spices and herbs and then steamed and/or grill. Ayam betutu is made super spicy in Gilimanung and in Klungkung, the betutu is stuffed with spices and veggies like cassava leaves or kale. 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.
Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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):
- Get 1/2 free range chicken (rub with salt and lime for 30 min)
- Get Blended spices
- Get 1 thumb of ginger
- Get 1 thumb of galangal
- Take Small pcs of turmeric
- Prepare 5 candlenut
- Take 3 pcs lemongrass
- Make ready 7 shallots
- Make ready 4 garlic cloves
- Take Oil
- Take Sugar
- Make ready Salt
- Take Roughly chopped spices
- Take 2 pcs lemongrass
- Prepare 5 bay leaves
- Prepare 3 lime leaves
- Take 3 shallots
- Take Additional
- Make ready Banana leaves for cover
- Take Aluminium foil
This recipe was modified from my cookbook that I brought from Indonesia, Hidangan Ayam ala Resto by Sufi S. In that cookbook, I saw a recipe Bebek Betutu which Bebek means duck in bahasa Indonesia. I modified by using chicken instead. Ayam betutu is made of chicken with spices inside.
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).
I modified by using chicken instead. 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. That is why it is called Ayam Betutu.
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