Ayam Betutu is a traditional Balinese food made from a whole chicken or duck filled with spices, then roasted in a husk fire. Literally, betutu means grilled meat. Chicken betutu can be enjoyed by many people because it uses 1 whole chicken.
Positif and negative impact of making betutu chicken. Positif : Being able to develop business fields as well as helping to preserve the taste and manufacturing techniques that are still traditional and introduce more widely to traditional halal food that must be tasted when coming to the island of Bali. And negative : If you want to learn or make betutu chicken at home, it will definitely take a long time and require a lot of ingredients or spices.
The taste of Betutu Chicken very delicious, because it is cooked with strong spices, the taste of betutu chicken is very tasty and spicy. The meat is soft due to being cooked with the husk fire technique for one day.
Recipe and processing the technique of making betutu chicken in the traditional way:
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
4 bay leaves
enough banana leaves to wrap the chicken (or use foil if you don't have banana leaves)
Stuffing:
100 grams of cassava leaves
Base genep : 4 shallots