Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ayam betutu (spicy grilled chicken). It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
It is often called according to its main ingredients; ayam betutu is chicken betutu, while bebek betutu is the duck version. This traditional dish can be found on the menu of luxury hotels or. I adore the beautiful island of Bali, and although it has changed dramatically over the last couple of decades owing to tourism, the heart and soul of this island is still very much apparent.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have ayam betutu (spicy grilled chicken) using 21 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Ayam betutu (spicy grilled chicken):
- Prepare 5 tablespoons oil (coconut oil)
- Make ready 100 gram young cassava leaves
- Get 1 chicken (about 1 and half kg)
- Make ready Banana leaves/ almunium foil, for wrapping
- Make ready Spices (ground)
- Make ready 5 red chillies
- Prepare 7 bird's eye chilies
- Prepare 5 candlenuts, roasted
- Take 2 big shallots
- Make ready 1 teaspoon dried shrimp paste
- Take 5 cloves garlic
- Get 1 tablespoon coriander, roasted
- Make ready 2 tablespoon chopped lemon grass
- Get 2 teaspoon peppercorns
- Prepare 1 tablespoon chopped galangel
- Make ready 2 cm fresh turmeric (or 1 teaspoon powder)
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powdered
- Prepare 5 kafir lime leaves
- Make ready 2 teaspoon chopped ginger
- Take 2 teaspoon chopped lesser galangel
- Take Salt and sugar
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.
Steps to make Ayam betutu (spicy grilled chicken):
- Heat oil and saute the ground spices until fragrant and dry. Set aside and allow to cool.
- Divide two parts. Combine 1 parts with cassava leaves.
- Stuff the mixture into the chicken and secure with toothpick or cooking string.
- Rub the chicken and with banana leaves (I use turmeric leaves because I don't have banana leaves) and tie with a string.
- Grilled in the oven at medium heat (180 °C) for about 2 - 3 hours or until cooked. Remove from heat and cut before serving.
- Note : I steam the chicken first about 45 minutes before grilling in the oven for 2 hours. Happy cooking 😍
Chicken or duck to be in though usually wrapped in banana leaves, then wrapped again with the stem nut, so wrapped tightly. 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. Today, however, there are modification in the way of cooking chicken betutu. People use oven instead rice husk.
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