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.