Bebek Betutu (Betutu Duck) - Bali, Indonesia

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Betutu duck is cooking Balinese community pride. typically created ​​of duck wrapped in banana leaf, then wrapped once more with stem nut thus tightly. Duck planted in a very hole within the ground and coated with coals for 6-7 hours till cooked.
Betutu is a way to cook chicken or  duck in Bali. each intact and coated a thick marinade. The distinction, ingkung sporting chicken coconut milk that creates it absolutely was tasty, whereas the chicken while not coconut milk and raises betutu spicy flavor. Chicken betutu additionally utilized in ancient ceremonies of Bali.

RECIPE
Ingridients:
1 whole duck, ± 2 ¼ kg
Spices that are:
18 shallots
6 cloves garlic
3 stalks lemongrass
5 kaffir lime leaves
6 hazelnut
4 cm ginger
6 cm turmeric
6 cm kencur
1 teaspoon pepper
5 chili sauce
1 tsp coriander
2 tsp roasted shrimp paste
1 ½ tablespoons salt
3 tablespoons cooking oil
banana leaves for wrapping

How to Make:
Wash and clean the duck to dry and set aside.
Mix all the spices are blended with oil in the basin. Stir until evenly distributed.
Rub seasoning on top on the outside of duck. Then enter all the remaining spices into the duck.
Close the back of the duck that opens with a skewer.
Duck wrap with banana leaves and steamed until the meeting for 50 minutes.
Lift the duck that has been steamed and then insert it into the oven first heated to the temperature 350 º F for 30 minutes.
Remove the banana leaf wrappers and cut into small pieces and duck meat served with its contents.
If the duck cooked, the meat will be very soft and can be detached from the bone easily.
Note: This betutu duck would taste better if done on a charcoal barbecue instead of using the oven. But, if using charcoal, do not forget to reverse the duck a few times so mature and flavors mingle with evenly.

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