Betutu
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Betutu is a signature dish of Indonesia; we have verified places to eat it in Bali. Chicken or duck smothered in basa genep spice paste, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked slowly until the meat falls from the bone, then eaten with rice and sambal matah. Start with where to eat Betutu in Bali.

Betutu · Bali

Chicken or duck smothered in basa genep spice paste, wrapped in banana leaf and cooked slowly until the meat falls from the bone, then eaten with rice and sambal matah.

Betutu is the Balinese word for a spice mixture of shallots, garlic, turmeric, ginger, galangal, candlenuts, chillies and shrimp paste, and it names the dish: ayam betutu is chicken, bebek betutu duck. Regional styles differ: the bird is stuffed with spices in Klungkung and Karangasem and wrapped in plantain leaf in Gianyar. Cooks traditionally buried the wrapped bird in a pit of embers, up to 24 hours for a duck. Nasi Ayam Kedewatan, near Ubud, has sold betutu chicken rice since 1963.

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