Tukir

Meat cooked inside bamboo over an open fire.

Ingredients

• 1 kg Goat meat
• 6 Shallots
• 6 cloves Garlic
• 2 tbsp Ginger
• 4 Chilies
• 3 stalks Lemongrass
• 1 Bamboo tube
• 2 tsp Salt
• 1 cup Water

Method

1. Cut the meat — Chop into small pieces so it cooks through in the bamboo.
2. Season — Mix with pounded shallot, garlic, ginger, chili, lemongrass and salt.
3. Fill the bamboo — Pack the meat into a fresh green bamboo tube and plug the end with leaves.
4. Cook over fire — Set the tube over embers and turn regularly for 90 minutes.
5. Tukir is ready — Split the bamboo open and serve — the green wood steams and perfumes the meat.

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