Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices)
Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices)

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna 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).

Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we have to 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):
  1. Take 1/2 free range chicken (rub with salt and lime for 30 min)
  2. Get Blended spices
  3. Prepare 1 thumb of ginger
  4. Make ready 1 thumb of galangal
  5. Make ready Small pcs of turmeric
  6. Take 5 candlenut
  7. Take 3 pcs lemongrass
  8. Get 7 shallots
  9. Take 4 garlic cloves
  10. Get Oil
  11. Prepare Sugar
  12. Take Salt
  13. Prepare Roughly chopped spices
  14. Prepare 2 pcs lemongrass
  15. Make ready 5 bay leaves
  16. Make ready 3 lime leaves
  17. Make ready 3 shallots
  18. Make ready Additional
  19. Take Banana leaves for cover
  20. Make ready Aluminium foil

Season with salt and stir well. Another spices recipes from Bali, Gods Island. 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.

Instructions to make Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices):
  1. Blend all the blended spices
  2. Heat a pan, sauteé the blended spice until fragrant. Afterwards, bring the roughly chopped spices in until it's cooked.
  3. 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).
  4. 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 one of my all-time favourite dishes. Place the chicken into the bowl, and then mix well with ¾ of the spice paste and add the bay leaves. Well known for its bustling night scene and beach clubs, is it any wonder that the Ayam Betutu, Balinese-style roasted chicken, is a dish excites the senses? The queen of this dish is the chicken -lovingly rubbed down with Base Gede, a spice paste made ofchili and a range of fragrant Southeast.

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