Paniki

Paniki

Paniki in yellow soup
Course	Main
Place of origin	Indonesia
Region or state	Minahasa, North Sulawesi
Serving temperature	Hot or room temperature
Main ingredients	spiced fruit bat

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.