2 dishes people actually cook in Timor-Leste: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Timor-Leste? 2 traditional Timor-Leste dishes, from Ikan bakar (80 min, the quickest) to Batar daan (780 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Timor-Leste on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
A Timorese one-pot stew of pumpkin, corn and mung beans, eaten with rice and containing neither meat nor coconut milk.
Timor-Leste's grilled mackerel, sour with tamarind and calamansi, finished with a handful of raw lemon basil and eaten with the chilli relish ai manas.
Copper documents two dishes from Timor-Leste: Batar daan and Ikan bakar. One of the two are grilled. Not one needs an oven — they cook entirely on the hob. Between them they use 16 different ingredients.
The two recipes need 16 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these two are the Timor-Leste entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Ikan bakar is the quickest at 80 minutes. Batar daan is the longest at 780 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 780 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Batar daan is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Timor-Leste is part of Southeast Asian.
Countries close to Timor-Leste on the globe — and close on the plate.
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