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Babi Timbungan (Steamed Pork in Bamboo) offers a unique cooking experience that harks back to ancient Balinese traditions. This dish features pork cooked in bamboo, slowly steamed with aromatic herbs and Balinese spices, resulting in a melt-in-your-mouth tenderness. Discover the secrets behind this rare and flavorful Balinese dish!

Ingredients

  • Pork chop
  • ½ kg pig cartilage
  • 4 tbsp of cooking oil

Ground Spices

  • 4 cloves of shallots
  • ½ finger joint length of aromatic ginger
  • 4 cloves of garlic
  • ½ finger joint length of galingale
  • 4 big chillis
  • 4 bay leaves
  • 2 small chillis
  • 3 lemongrass
  • ½ tsp pepper
  • 2 tsp of coriander
  • Shrimp paste

Additional Ingredients

  • 6 bay leaves
  • 6 lime leaves
  • 3 lemongrass, crush them
  • Water
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • Cooking oil

Steps

  • Ground all the spices (add a bit of water), then saute with cooking oil.
  • Add bay leaves, lime leaves, and crushed lemongrass. Cook until fragrant, then add water.
  • Cook until the water decreased, then set aside.
  • We’re gonna use a whole pig that already cleaned (you can use hot water to clean the skin, remove its innard)
  • Once it’s clean, piearce the pork grill utensil from the mouth until it penetrates to the back.
  • Put the ground spices inside the pork belly then sew it.
  • Light the firewood and the pork is ready to roast.
  • Roast the pork evenly for approximately 2 hour by rotating it (rolling). Wait until the color of the pork skin turn reddish.
  • Once the pork is evenly red and you feel it is cooked enough, remove it and clean it again using a clean cloth.
  • Serve with rice, the Balinese roasted suckling pig is ready.
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