Many cultures were performed already, not all has a unique among others to be remembered, but still unique for the cultures where it belongs to be. It is always be such a trend for people to visit a place and different places for a holiday or business trip, when they back home, they will bring a story, pictures, postcard or even tiny unique goodies. But not to forget, when visiting a place, everybody also loves to explore the uniqueness of culinary, especially when you are a foreigner tourist, and in fact also many local tourists are loves to try the visited place’s foods.
Have you ever wonder to visit Bali & its culture?, when you say yes you do, better to read one of the most popular culinary there, Sate Lilit. The secret of Sate (Satay) was originally came from Java (one of biggest island in Indonesian archipelago’s), an island where Indonesian capital city lies. Can’t trace from what year that this culinary was founded and from where does this culinary absorbed, rarely literature ever mention about its history. When Balinese people know how to interact with people outside the island, then Sate become known by Balinese. People basically acknowledge that Sate was purely made from sliced chicken or goat meat without any accompaniment food material, as represented by Madura’s culture. Nowadays, Sate is not just made using chicken or goat meat, but it can be made from beef, fish and coconut, or even can be mixed with shredded coconut, as mostly Balinese known as Sate Lilit. What makes it different from Javanese style is the Satay’s ingredient itself, Sate Lilit formed with rich & strong ingredient, such as Turmeric, Galangal, Chili, Lime’s leaves, Lemongrass, Pepper, etc.
Sate Lilit was firstly served as Kingdom’s palace culinary and was brought at the ceremonial occasion. Coconut was as its basic food material. Lilit in Balinese language means joined one by one until looks sticky all together. Through years, Sate Lilit in Bali was reformed and dynamically modified accordingly, people were transmitted it from a secret of Kingdom’s palace and ceremonial occasion to become a popular public food on the street or in other words it is most wanted Street Food to taste. Not just only made from coconut but now mixed with minced meat or only minced meat. Then how you will know that it is Sate Lilit?, it is easy recognized from bamboo stick or part of coconut stick as its skewer for holding the sticky mixture chopped meat, coconut and ingredient. Burned on the coconut charcoal or wood charcoal is the best way of cooking for Sate Lilit, because the aroma & taste will definitely affected by the charcoal essences. The strong ingredient in Sate Lilit is already enough to serve this food without any side dishes sauce, except you want it to be more bit spicy, then you need chili sauce to accompany you to eat Sate Lilit. But spicy sauce is not the only accompaniment food to eat Sate Lilit, also you can eat it with rice cake call Blayag or Ketipat/ Ketupat. This Blayag or Ketipat is traditional rice cake made by boiling the rice that put inside the plaited coconut leaves. So if you are interested with this Sate Lilit, you can try below recipe at home as well.