Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Take For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Take 2.5 cup rice
- Make ready 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Prepare 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Make ready 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Prepare to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Make ready For the chicken filling
- Get 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Make ready Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
- Make ready 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Take Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Get 4 pcs big red chillies
- Prepare 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Make ready 5 shallots
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves
- Prepare 2 candle nuts
- Make ready 2 cm fresh ginger
- Get 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Take 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Prepare Others:
- Prepare Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Make ready leaves Basil
- Get Banana leaves to wrap
Instructions to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Rinse the rice. Add the rice, lemongrass, bay leaves, galangal, salt, coconut milk & water and cook in rice cooker according to the instruction. Once cooked, taste and add any salt/seasoning if it is not salty enough. Mix with fried silver fish. Note: fried silver fish is very salty already so no need to add too much salt to the rice.
- Put all ingredients for the spice paste in food processor until become a very smooth paste.
- For chicken filling: boil the chicken breast until fully cooked and shred the chicken.
- In a pan, heat some oil, fry the spice paste until fragrant and add the shredded chicken and stink beans (if you use them). Season with salt, sugar, pepper, oyster sauce to your taste.
- Clean the banana leaves and soak in boiling water for a few minutes to soften the leaves and to kill any harmful bacteria or virus.
- To assemble: take 2 layer of banana leaves (to make sure the rice won’t leak. Put rice, continued with chicken fillings, add some basil leaves on top, and wrap everything together, secure the sides with toothpicks
- Some recipe said that we can steam the rice again for 10 minutes to make sure all tastes blend together (but you can skip this step)
- Grilled this wrapped rice in your griller. I use happycall pan as I do not have a griller :)
- Ready to serve :) It is very fragrant and tasty.
- Note: as this recipe calls for many steps, we can clean the banana leaves the day before. Maybe cook the rice or the fillings the day before (don’t forget to keep it in the fridge if you keep it overnight) and just assemble and grilled the wrapped rice before you serve it.
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