Ayam Betutu / Chicken in Traditional Balinese Betutu Sauce

Betutu is a Balinese famous chicken dish, almost all nasi campur Bali will have betutu in it. One of my favorite betutu in Bali is from Warung Adyana, that is also known as Nasi Pasar Burung, I always go there whenever I visit my hometown.
Now that I live far far away from my beloved hometown, I can't get this dish anywhere here...so I started my adventure to try finding the betutu recipe that tasted delicious, and would be comparable to my favorite betutu in Bali. I tried 3 different recipe and finally found this recipe that in my opinion, beat any other recipe that I had tried previously. It's very easy, I don't need to wrap the chicken with banana leaves, and I don't even need to bake it on the oven.
I cooked this dish for my mother who visits me from Bali, she was surprised that the betutu tasted very authentic, she said it tasted just like those betutu sold in Bali :)
This recipe was adapted from Kitchen Warrior's Ayam Betutu Express


Ingredients,
2 pack of sliced chicken
2 tbs coconut oil
500 ml water
one handful chopped lemongrass
salt

Sauce Ingredients ---> blend them all in food processor
20 cloves garlic
3 big shallot / 7 small shallot
2 thumbs ginger
2 tsp turmeric powder
2 tsp kutchery powder (kencur)
1 tsp galangal powder
2 tsp belachan
10 red jalapeno

Cooking Method,
1. Blend all the sauce ingredients in food processor, we want a coarse, not to fine result.

2. Heat 2 tbs coconut oil on a big pan

3. When the oil is hot, add on the blended sauce ingredients and the lemongrass, stir well and season it with salt

4. When the sauce is fragrant, add the chicken pieces and stir well

5. Add on water, let it boil, then simmer covered until the chicken is cook and tender and the water is reduced by half. The thicker the sauce the stronger the taste, adjust it to your own personal taste. 

Mi Goreng Kampung / Humble Fried Noodle

This mi goreng kampung was truly inspired by those super simple & humble fried noodle inside Nasi Campur Bali.
This is my ultimate #1 favorite nasi Bali of all time, it's Nasi Wangaya (the name of the small restaurant that sells it). I can't even start to explain how delicious is this nasi campur, there's nothing fancy about it, yet every single thing is absolutely to die for! maybe they put some magic on it...?? haha

The picture above is that magical nasi Wangaya...ugh...posting this picture makes me drools... T_____T
Anyway, this is my original recipe for the mi goreng kampung, it best serve as the side dishes for other foods. This noodle won't be the star among the other dishes. If the other dishes is the bride / the groom, then this mi goreng kampung is the maid of honor / best man.
Remember, the key of this mie goreng kampung is simplicity, nothing fancy.

Ingredients,
1 pack of thick egg noodles. Boiled them, then drain the water.
carrot & cabbage, with 1:1 ratio. shredded.
cooking oil

Sauce Ingredients,
5 shallots, thinly sliced
5 garlic, chopped
salt & pepper

Cooking Method,
1. Heat the pan, add the cooking oil then pan fry the shallots and garlic until they turn brownish.
2. Add the carrot and cabbage, stir until they wilted.
3. Season with some salt & pepper
4. Add the cooked egg noodle into the pan, mix everything together.
5. Serve them with your other favorite dishes.

This is me attempted to prepare some nasi Bali...including the betutu, plecing kangkung, mie goreng kampung and tempe goreng :)

Ayam Sambel Matah / Shredded Chicken in Balinese Sauce

Ayam sambel matah, it's really hard to translate this one...but the direct translation is Chicken in Raw Chili Sauce...lol...sounds too funny!! but all the sauce in this dish is literally raw :D
Anyway, I would like to introduce to you, one of the most authentic Balinese food. Usually you will find this dish in Nasi Campur Bali, Balinese style rice topped with various toppings, my favorite food!! Nasi campur Bali that we like to call Nasi Bali, is super delicious, they have different types of toppings depending on where you bought them.
The funny thing is, while I live in Bali, I never ever like this dish. Whenever I order my nasi Bali, I always told them not to put this dish on it. Now that I think about it, I didn't like the dish because they were made out of chicken breast...and I don't like chicken breast, it's dry.
So why I love this dish now? the story began (and actually the same story also started my cooking journey) when I was on my 1st trimester of pregnancy around the end of 2009. The one and only food I craved was...guess what!! it was nasi Bali!! the only thing I couldn't find here in Seattle.
One of my Balinese good friend, Ira, was also pregnant at the same time, and she was also lived far away from home and also was craving for Balinese foods. So we began to try out recipe and shared recipe to each other...this recipe was given to me by her <3

Ps. Usually this dish is cooked using chicken breast, but since I don't like chicken breast, I always use chicken tight or chicken wings. You can use chicken breast if you want.
I like it with skin, if you don't like chicken skin, you don't have to use it, just make it according to your personal taste.

Ingredients,
1 pack of dark chicken meat with skin, you can use chicken tight or chicken wings.
salt
Vegetable Oil

Sauce Ingredients,
12 shallots, thinly sliced ---> I seriously never count, but you need a LOT of them
3 bird eye chilies, thinly sliced
salt
belachan (roasted shrimp paste / terasi)
Olive oil / vegetable oil

Cooking Method,
1. Rub the chicken with salt, then deep fried the chicken in vegetable oil. You can bake the chicken / boil them too, but I like to deep fried the chicken, it make them more tasty and the skin crunchy.
2. Let the chicken cool down, then shredded the chicken.
3. Mixed all the sauce ingredients, use the salt and belachan according to your own personal taste. If your chicken is salty enough, you can omit the salt.
4. Add on the shredded chicken, mixed well.
5. Enjoy it with warm rice, a true authentic Balinese style :)

I love to eat ayam sambel matah with plecing kangkung and steamy white rice, it's the authentic Balinese combo :D