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Tukir

Name: Tukir
Total time: 120 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Timor-Leste
Ingredients: 600g Chicken Thigh; 2 Lemongrass; 1 tsp Turmeric; 1 piece Ginger; 4 cloves Garlic; 2 Chili pepper; 1 Lime; 1 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable oil

Main Dish

⏱ 120 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Spice-marinated meat packed into bamboo tubes and cooked by the fire — an East Timorese festival dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Tukir is a traditional East Timorese cooking method: meat seasoned with turmeric, garlic, ginger, and lemongrass is packed into thick bamboo tubes, propped against a bonfire, and steam-roasted for hours. It's made on days when people gather, such as weddings and village festivals. Families use goat, chicken, or pork.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a village festival day in East Timor, thick bamboo tubes lean around a bonfire, and fragrant meat is pulled from the split bamboo.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Chicken Thigh 600g
Lemongrass 2
Turmeric 1 tsp
Ginger 1 piece
Garlic 4 cloves
Chili pepper 2
Lime 1
Salt 1 tsp
Vegetable oil 2 tbsp

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the chicken into bite-size pieces.
Finely chop the lemongrass, ginger, garlic, and chili and mix with the turmeric, salt, oil, and lime juice.
Marinate the chicken in the paste for 1 hour.
Pack into bamboo tubes (or a heavy pot) and cover.
Steam-roast slowly over a low fire or in a 160°C oven for 1 1/2 hours.

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