Grilled Chicken Ban Don - Central Highlands cuisine has a very unique flavor

The culture of the Central Highlands of Vietnam not only has gongs, epics, musical instruments and folk songs, but culinary art is also one of the factors contributing to creating a unique cultural color.

Grilled chicken Ban Don is a rustic dish of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, especially in Ban Don, Dak Lak province, Vietnam. This dish has become a specialty that cannot be missed by tourists when visiting this land.

The characteristic of Ban Don Grilled Chicken is that it is made from free-range chickens, still young, with firm meat. When the chicken is cooked, the outer skin is golden brown and crispy, the meat inside is soft and sweet, and well-seasoned. Grilled chicken can be eaten with bamboo rice, chili salt or lemongrass salt, all of which are delicious.

The cuisine of the Central Highlands has a very unique flavor that cannot be mistaken for anything else. All the specialties have the flavor of the mountains, forests, nature and express the soul and daily life of the people of the Central Highlands.

Grilled chicken Ban Don is a rustic dish of ethnic minorities, however, this dish has now become a specialty that cannot be missed by tourists when visiting the Central Highlands.

To make this dish, the most important ingredient is chicken. To have delicious grilled chicken, the people of Ban Don have to be very meticulous in raising and selecting chickens. They must be genuine free-range chickens, which mainly eat dropped food, insects, etc. The chickens chosen for grilling are newly grown, about 1kg each. If the chickens are too big, the meat will be tough, if the chickens are too small, they will have a bad smell...

The chickens chosen for grilling are the newly grown ones, about a kilo each. After being cleaned, the chickens are left whole, cut open along the breast and flattened, marinated with salt, chili, lemongrass juice and a little wild honey. The special thing is that the lemongrass is only crushed and filtered to get the juice, not marinated with the whole body. The more lemongrass juice, the more delicious the grilled meat.

The chicken is marinated for about 30 minutes to an hour, then clamped onto a bamboo stick and rotated evenly over charcoal. Turn the chicken every few minutes until it turns golden brown and is dripping with rich fat. Just looking at it is enough to make your mouth water.

To enjoy Ban Don grilled chicken with the right taste, you must dip it in chili salt or lemongrass salt. Regardless of the type of salt, it must be pounded with green forest chili. This type of chili is crispy and fragrant, very attractive. If you eat grilled chicken with soft, sticky bamboo rice, it will be even more delicious.

On chilly afternoons in the mountains, gathering around the fire in the middle of the stilt house, leisurely enjoying delicious grilled chicken while listening to the sound of the waterfall... It is truly a meal full of the essence of the mountains and forests.

This grilled chicken has a very special taste because the sweetness of the meat is completely preserved, not mixed or affected by strange flavors brought by spices like in Kinh people's dishes. It allows diners to feel all the natural flavors of the meat. Especially, it is made from the meat of ethnic minority chickens, this breed of chicken is often called crow chicken because it usually has black feathers, black legs and usually weighs less than 1kg/chicken when fully grown.

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