Sarawak Food: Bidayuh Grilled Chicken

 

Sarawak Food: Bidayuh Grilled Chicken

Bidayuh Grilled Chicken

Grilled chicken Bidayuh usually available during Gawai Dayak celebration. Chicken will be cooked using firewood (fire).

Gawai Dayak is celebrated by the Dayaks in Sarawak and West Kalimantan, which is an official public holiday on May 31 and June 1 of each year in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is both a religious and social occasion.

The mode response varies from place to place. Preparation starts early. In fact, after the longhouse agreed to hold a big celebration, Dayaks may need to grow rice in the fields next to each other and to implement labor exchange called "bedurok" which aims to ensure getting rice sufficient by the end of the year in readiness for the big feast.

On Eve devices, people will take consolation, aping, palm or coconut tree shoots mostly for making soup with meat and vegetables accumulate such as hiding wild ferns, Fiddlehead fern, bamboo shoots, cassava leaves and round eggplant Dayak from nearby forests, fields or gardens in the early morning.the celebration began in the evening 31 May.

Below is the recipe and ingredients to cook / bake the chicken.
Ingredients (recipe):

1. Chicken (the tail)
2. Ajinomoto / lime leaves
3. Black pepper (black pepper)
Extra: Olive oil

How to cook / bake:
Chicken that is ready to be cleaned after being slaughtered, burned a little part of the body (Parch: Bidayuh language) to remove fuzz. Then roast chicken using medium heat with a wood fire (fire) until cooked thoroughly.