How to Prepare Award-winning Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices)

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Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices) is something that I have loved my entire life.

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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have ayam betutu (chicken in balinese spices) using 20 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ayam Betutu (Chicken in Balinese spices):

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

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

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).

Place the chicken into the bowl, and then mix well with ¾ of the spice paste and add the bay leaves. 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. I modified by using chicken instead.

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