Get To Know Balinese Food Techniques And Recipes, The Name of Food is Betutu Chicken

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 

6 cloves of garlic 

1 piece of ginger the size of a thumb 

1 piece of kencur the size of a thumb 

1 piece of galangal the size of a thumb 

1 piece of turmeric as big as your thumb 

4 stalks lemongrass (finely sliced) 

2 red chilies (to taste) 

1 tsp shrimp paste salt to taste) Cooking oil 

Method: 

1. Roughly chop the shallots, garlic, ginger, galangal, turmeric, chilies and chopped lemon grass, and add the shrimp paste and salt 

2. Then stir the base genep evenly by pouring a little cooking oil, then the spices are stirred into the cassava leaves, add the bay leaf. 

3. Insert cassava leaves into the cavity of the chicken, coat the outer meat of the chicken with base genep 

4. Cover the whole chicken with banana leaves then cover again with aluminum foil and refrigerate for 2 hours or more. 

5. Make a husk fire using coconut shells and firewood, after the husk fire becomes a chicken grave with charcoal made from coconut shells and firewood 

6. Chicken husk for 24 hours or 1 day

Balinese culinary chicken betutu can be enjoyed at a restaurant or make it yourself at home. Balinese food, namely betutu chicken, can be enjoyed with accompaniments such as sambal matah, fried peanuts, plecing kangkung, tipat and sate lilit.

Thank you and good luck.