Lawar is a Balinese food specially made to celebrate Galungan and Kuningan. But over time, just like chicken opor on Eid al-Fitr, lawar is now used as a food menu in stalls and restaurants.
The main ingredient is pork. But now it can be replaced by young jackfruit and chicken meat. It will be delicious when eaten with warm white rice, green beans, jackfruit, and others. Here is a Balinese lawar recipe.
1. Chicken lawar recipe
MIngredients to make lawar:
- 250 gr boneless chicken
- 2 bunches of long beans
- 1 young jackfruit
- coconut roasted on the stove, then grated
- 1 lime
- Sugar, salt and seasoning
- Fried onions (Embe).
- 10 red onions
- 10 pieces of garlic
- Embe seasoning (fried onions)
- 10 cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon grilled shrimp paste.
- Spices to be mashed
- 3 cm kencur, laos, turmeric, ginger
- 7 red onions, 5 garlics
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 2 pecans.
How to make chicken lawar
- Chopped chicken, jackfruit, and long beans and put them in a container
- Puree the spices, then saute until fragrant
- Mix the chopped ingredients with grated coconut, shallots, garlic, ground spices that have been sauteed, shrimp paste, chili, seasoning, sugar, salt, lime juice. Stir in the pan evenly
- When it’s done, serve it.
2. Long bean lawar recipe
Ingredients
- 5 cloves of thinly sliced red onion
- 1 bunch of long beans
- teaspoon grilled shrimp paste
- 5 pieces of cayenne pepper, thinly sliced
- teaspoon salt
- 1 lime.
How to make
- Wash the long beans until clean and cut into small pieces, then boiled or steamed only half cooked. Remove and drain, then set aside first
- Fry the sliced red onion until it smells good and turns brown in color. Remove when it’s cooked, and drain
- Sauté the sliced cayenne pepper until slightly dry, and add the previously kneaded shrimp paste with salt. Stir until well mixed
- Prepare a container to put the long beans, stir-fried chili paste, and fried onions. Stir until evenly distributed and adjust the taste
- If it is, add the lime juice, and stir again until blended
- The dish is ready to be served.
3. Recipe for jackfruit lawar
Ingredients
- young jackfruit that has been boiled half cooked
- 1 bunch of long beans
- 1 tablespoon fried red onion
- 100 grams of boiled and chopped chicken breast
- 1 tablespoon fried garlic
- 1 teaspoon salt
- toasted and grated coconut
- 1 tablespoon thinly sliced cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoon of flavoring.
- Fine spice ingredients
- 10 red onions
- 10 pieces of garlic
- 2 large red chilies
- 3 cm ginger
- 3 centimeters of galangal
- 1 segment kencur
- 3 cm turmeric
- 3 pecans
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1 teaspoon coriander
- 2 lime leaves and salam
- 1 lime.
How to make young jackfruit lawar
- The boiled jackfruit is chopped, but don’t be too fine
- Slice the long beans about 1 centimeter, then boil half cooked
- Puree the spices and stir-fry until fragrant with lime leaves and greetings
- Add the grated coconut to the ground spices. Ouch until evenly
- Mix jackfruit and long beans in a bowl. Add the onion, garlic, and chili slices
- Add ground spices and lime juice. Then mix well
- Food is ready to be served.
The materials used are very easy and simple. Based on the Balinese lawar recipe above, which one have you tried at home?
