Recipe : Famous Balinese Bebek Betutu

     Along with it's chicken counterpart, bebek betutu (slow-roasted duck wrapped in barks) is known as a traditional Balinese culinary icon. Betutu itself refers to a cooking method as extensively embraced as it is interpreted throughout the island.
    The main ingredients of the spicy Gilimanuk Betutu are bird's eye chillies and garlic, and the cooking is done in a large-sized streamer that can fit up to several chickens or duck.

RECIPE : 

• MAIN INGREDIENTS :
  - 1 hole duck
  - 200 cc water (1 glass of water)
  - 100 cc coconut oil
  - 50 cc fish sauce

• SPICE PASTE :
  - 8 shallots
  - 5 garlic cloves
  - 10 bird's eye chillies
  - 1 thumb sized-piece sand ginger
  - 1 thumb sized-piece turmeric
  - 1 thumb sized-piece ginger
  - 1 thumb sized-piece galangal
  - 1 tsp.coriander
  - 1 tsp.black pepper
  - 2 candlenuts
  - Salt, shrimp paste to taste

• HOW TO MAKE :
  - Mix coconut oil, fish sauce and shrimp paste. Rub the mixture onto the duck, giving it a
    massage with just enough pressure to tenderize the meat and break its bones.
  - In a food processor or using mortar and pestle, grind all spices to a paste. Insert some of this
    paste inside the cavity of the duck and rub the remaining paste on the outside.
  - Wrap the duck in betel nut bark. Before trying, pour a glass of water into the package. Water
    helps to dissolve the spices and tenderize the duck meat during the cooking process.
  - Place the package in an underground cooking pit. Let it cook in the heat of smouldering rice
    husks for 8 hours.

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