Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, nasi lemak. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nasi Lemak is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Nasi Lemak is something that I have loved my whole life.
Nasi lemak is a dish originating in Malay cuisine that consists of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. It is commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish. It is also the native dish in neighbouring areas with significant Malay populations such as Singapore, Brunei, and Southern Thailand. In Indonesia it can be found in several parts of Sumatra.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have nasi lemak using 26 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nasi Lemak:
- Get Rice
- Take 1 can coconut milk
- Prepare 100 ml water
- Make ready 3 pandan leaves
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 3 slices ginger
- Prepare Sambal
- Prepare 15 dried red chillies (cleaned, deseeded, soaked)
- Prepare 4 garlic
- Get 6 big shallots
- Make ready 2 slices galangal
- Take 1 tsp belachan powder / belachan
- Make ready Main
- Prepare 20 Fried anchovies
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp sugar
- Prepare 2 boiled egg
- Prepare 1 cucumber (sliced)
- Get 1/2 sweet onion (thinly sliced)
- Take peanuts
- Make ready Chicken
- Prepare 2 tbsp belachan
- Prepare 1 egg
- Make ready potato starch
- Take 1 chicken stock
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
Nasi Lemak is the de facto national dish of Malaysia. Nasi lemak literally means 'rice' and 'fat'. However, the 'fat' refers to the creaminess of the coconut milk which is used in cooking the rice. Nasi lemak is a Malaysian dish made of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaves that is also found in Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and southern Thailand.
Steps to make Nasi Lemak:
- Marinate chicken for at least 2 hours.
- Blend the ingredients for the sambal.
- In a pot, add sambal paste and oil.
- Then add the 1/2 onions, fried anchovies, salt and sugar. (do not add fried shallots, it will make it bitter!)
- Cover chicken with the potato starch and deep fried it.
- Cook the rice now.
- Serve rice with peanuts, cucumber, sambal and chicken.
However, the 'fat' refers to the creaminess of the coconut milk which is used in cooking the rice. Nasi lemak is a Malaysian dish made of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaves that is also found in Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei and southern Thailand. Nasi Lemak is undoubtedly the national dish that represents Malaysia and the most popular traditional dish in Malaysia, both for Malaysians and around the world. Throughout my school years, I would savor nasi lemak, wrapped in green banana leaves, at least three times a week. Inside the bundle was warm coconut rice infused with the vanilla-like aroma of pandan leaves and citrusy ginger accompanied by a hard-boiled egg, crispy fried anchovies and peanuts, a few slices of cucumber, and a dollop of sambal.
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