Bali is one of the favorite tourist
destinations in the world that have many international
restaurant and café. Mostly all visitors just remember name of
restaurant instead of foods. Bali actually has many
traditional foods, that you can taste while you spend your holiday this
beautiful island.
- Betutu
Betutu is a Balinese dish of steamed or roasted chicken or duck. This highly seasoned and spiced dish is a popular dish in Bali . An even spicier version is available using extra-spicy sauce made from uncooked (raw) onion slices mixed with red chili peppers and coconut oil.
This traditional dish is very popular nowadays. It can be found in the menu of luxury hotels or restaurants in Bali. It takes at least 24 hours to cook. Many travelers from other regions of Indonesia brought Betutu dishes as Balinese-gift for their families. This dish is also popular among tourists who travel to Bali.
In Bali, betutu's tastes and ways of cooking are different according to regions;
- Klungkung’s betutu chicken is stuffed with cooking-spices.
- Gianyar’s betutu is cooked with plantain leaf wrapping.
- Gilimanuk’s betutu is also very popular with its hot and spicy flavors such as garlic, onion, red chili peppers, turmeric, ginger, black pepper, and coconut oil.
- Babi Guling (Balinese Suckling Pig)
Babi Guling is a traditional Balinese roasted pig, one of Bali’s most famed dishes
It's delicious and you should definitely try all of the different parts of it.
It's easy to get one anywhere in Bali!
But how about MAKING your own Bali Guling?
This would be a truly unique experience! You can do it real Balinese style, with catching the pig yourself at the sty, killing it and cleaning it.The pig is stuffed and infused with a spicy concoction typically involving turmeric, coriander seeds, lemongrass, black pepper and garlic, and traditionally spit-roasted. The process is very traditional, but the final food is completely safe to eat, since the pig is roasted. It's impossible to eat the whole pig at one time, even with several people. It will come with Rice topped with suckling pig skin, grilled sausage, grilled pork, and deep-fried pork
- Bubur Mengguh (Mengguh Porridge)
This savory porridge originally from Buleleng - North Bali. Instead of consumed as breakfast, this porridge is usually consumed during ritual process or traditional Balinese ceremony. Bubur Mengguh is made out of rice and coconut milk. You may sprinkle some shredded chicken on top, then finally drizzled with thick chicken gravy. As for the vegetables, Balinese people usually add some special Balinese urap vegetables. In addition to its delicious taste, the urap vegetables also bring some variations like some sort of a crunchy experience.
- Serombotan
Serombotan is a traditional vegetable from Klungkung Regency, and it is a traditional food made by mix of vegetables like sprouts, beans, spinach, kale, green beans, and eggplant. In order to add a little bit of sensation on the dish, we may add peanuts such as red beans, green beans, black beans, and ground peanuts. Serombotan earned its delicious taste from the three traditional ‘sambal’ recipes like Sambal Nyuh, peanut sauce, and Unyah Sere Limo which perfect for spicy lovers.
- Nasi Jinggo
Bali’s culinary scene was enriched with the arrival of nasi jinggo. Packed in fresh green banana leaf, nasi jinggo is a kind of grab and go meal. Inside the small package is a little portion of warm rice and a pinch of several types of cooking, such as pulled chicken, fried noodles, fried peanut, sautĂ© vegetables, and fried shredded coconut, generally known in Bali as saur and last, but not least, a pinch of very hot sambal (chili condiment).
- Lawar
Lawar is a dish created from a mixture of vegetables, coconut and minced meat mixed with rich herbs and spices, originating from Bali, Indonesia. Some types of lawar usually add the meat blood mixed with spices to add taste. Lawar spoils easily should be consumed immediately; it is usually good for half a day before going bad.
Lawar is named according to its ingredients, for example lawar mixed with pork is called lawar babi (pork lawar). Lawar which uses young jackfruit is called lawar nangka. Sometimes lawar is named according to its color: lawar merah (red lawar) and lawar putih (white lawar)
- Nasi Tepeng
Nasi Tepeng is a typical food that comes from Gianyar, food cooked with a complete mix of spices and spicy pepper makes itself felt on the tongue. Coupled with vegetables such as beans, red beans, young jackfruit, eggplant, Moringa leaves, and shredded coconut makes it increasingly wants to be tasted.
In the presentation was also made with typical and even culinary made from rice, but formulated in a different way will result in new flavors and it will have its own flavor that is addictive.
- Satay Plecing
Satay Plecing is one of the unique traditional foods in Bali made by all kinds of meat from pork, chicken or fish which then drizzled with water spinach sauce, instead of just peanut sauce. The sauce itself is being rendered with some other spices and condiments like cayenne pepper, salt, shrimp paste, tomatoes, and sometimes a trickle of lime. The taste could as well be very complicated to some, but we assure you that it has that kind of savor that you will unlikely found in any dishes.
- Satay Lilit
Satay Lilit is made from the mincing meat mixed with condiments and roasting process. The result? A mix of heavenly taste along with the exciting fragrant from the lemongrass stick. Yes, instead of using common stick in any type of satay, Satay Lilit used the lemongrass stick. As we mentioned earlier, satay lilit used fish (seafood). Of course you can also use pork or chicken, but the authentic one uses the fish (fillet) with prawn mix.
It is recommended foods to eat in Bali
when you got holidays in Island of Paradise. If you want to taste one of
9 Balinese Foods above in Bali or you want to taste all of it, you just
need to book your trip through a reliable travel agency.