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.
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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.
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Other than cooked in coconut milk, paniki is also cooked in spicy rica-rica, a mixture of various herbs with chilli pepper.
![Paniki httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu](https://alchetron.com/cdn/paniki-d97d8b8e-9ff3-4b6a-abbe-5e7faf6a498-resize-750.jpg)
Paniki dishes can be found in Manado, and outskirt towns of Pamandangan and Tomohon. It also sold in Manado restaurants in Jakarta.
![Paniki Masakan Minahasa The Sound of One Pan Frying](https://alchetron.com/cdn/paniki-e7b0c891-fb2b-4a98-b388-dda2c79983b-resize-750.jpeg)
![Paniki 7 Bizarre Indonesian Dishes that You MayNOT Want to Try Indoindians](https://alchetron.com/cdn/paniki-7eba3f5e-13f2-48f9-9dc8-60d36489be9-resize-750.jpg)
References
Paniki Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA