CookingTimor-Leste

Kontinua ho tradisaun
tukir husi beiala sira
Serimónia kultural iha Timor-Leste baibain
involve preparasaun no servi hahán ne’ebe
ho kuantidade barak. Iha Adarai no parte
seluk husi munísipiu Viqueque, te’in/tunu
ho au pedasuk iha ahi leten ho koñesidu
tukir sai hanesan parte importante husi
eventu sira ne’e.
Te’in tukir uza dahuluk husi beiala no avo
sira wainhira sira la’o dook husi uma atu
kasa animal fuik sira iha ailaran ka he’in
karau. Sira la lori sanan ka ekipamentus
todan ruma iha sira nia viajen ne’e, maibé
sira te’in de’it ho rekursu naturais ne’ebe
hetan iha dalan hanesan au no tali tahan.
Husi istória orijen tukir etu no na’an mak
sai parte husi serimónia importante ida
ne’ebe dook husi uma, hanesan ritual
tinan-tinan ne’ebe ho naran ‘foko karbau’
iha lian Nauoti. Serimónia ne’e atu ‘fase
karau ain’ ho nuu been, fó bensaun saúde
di’ak ba karau antes husik sira ba hala’i
natar. Fatin serimonia besik karau luhan,
no natar ne’ebe dook husi uma, nune’e fó
oportunidade di’ak atu kontinua tradisaun
halo tukir.
Iha tempu Indonesia, au mós sai meius
famozu ne’ebe di’ak los hodi uza ba tukir
hahán husi tasi, liuliu lenuk tolun sira
ne’ebe foti husi tasi ibun hafoin sira sai mai
tau tolun. Agora ema sira iha Adarai uza
au ba tukir ikan iha tasi ibun ne’ebe ka’er
besik iha area rumpon ne’ebe mak monta
husi WorldFish.
Continuing the ancestral
tradition of cooking in
bamboo (tukir)
Cultural ceremonies in Timor-Leste often
involve preparing and serving large
quantities of food. In Adarai community
and other parts of Viqueque municipality,
cooking food in short lengths of bamboo
over a fire – a method known as tukir – is an
important part of these events.
Cooking by tukir was first used by our
grandfathers and their grandfathers when
they travelled far from home to hunt animals
in the forest or herd buffalo. They did not
carry saucepans or other heavy equipment
on these journeys, but cooked their food
using natural resources found along the way,
like bamboo and palm leaves.
From these origins, using bamboo to cook
rice and meat became an important part of
ceremonies away from home, like the annual
ritual called ‘foko karbau’ in the local Nauoti
language. This event – to ‘wash the buffaloes’
legs’ in coconut water – was carried out to
bless the health of the buffaloes before
releasing them to prepare the paddy. This
took place near the buffalo stalls and rice
fields, which were far from home, so provided
the opportunity to continue the tukir tradition.
During Indonesian times, bamboo also
became a popular way to cook and sell some
types of seafood; in particular, turtle eggs,
collected from sea turtles hunted when they
came to shore to nest. Now, people in Adarai
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