Course Main Place of origin Indonesia | Main ingredients spiced fruit bat | |
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Region or state Minahasa, North Sulawesi Serving temperature Hot or room temperature Similar Tinutuan, Bat as food, Cakalang fufu, Brenebon, Woku | ||
Paniki is a dish of Minahasan from North Sulawesi made from fruit bat (Minahasan:paniki). Before being cooked in spices, usually the bats are burned to remove its soft hairs, then cooked in coconut milk, herbs and spices.
In Minahasan culture, fruit bat is considered as a clean meat since it live on a very healthy diet of tropical fruit. Fruit bat meat is described as having an intriguing almost woody flavor. The bat wings is valued for its unique slightly rubbery texture.
Other than cooked in coconut milk, paniki is also cooked in spicy rica-rica, a mixture of various herbs with chilli pepper.
Paniki dishes can be found in Manado, and outskirt towns of Pamandangan and Tomohon. It also sold in Manado restaurants in Jakarta.
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