Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, nasi lemak. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nasi Lemak is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Nasi Lemak is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
Nasi lemak is widely eaten in Malaysia and Singapore. More commonly consumed as breakfast in both countries, it is commonly sold at hawker food centres and roadside stalls in Malaysia and Singapore. In Indonesia, nasi lemak is a favourite local breakfast fare; especially in Eastern Sumatra (Riau Islands, Riau and Jambi provinces). There are a variety of side dishes served on top of the nasi lemak: fried anchovies, fried fish, hard-boiled egg, cucumber, sambal udang (shrimp) or sambal sotong (squid).
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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nasi Lemak:
- Get Rice
- Make ready 1 can coconut milk
- Make ready 100 ml water
- Prepare 3 pandan leaves
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 slices ginger
- Make ready Sambal
- Get 15 dried red chillies (cleaned, deseeded, soaked)
- Take 4 garlic
- Take 6 big shallots
- Get 2 slices galangal
- Make ready 1 tsp belachan powder / belachan
- Prepare Main
- Prepare 20 Fried anchovies
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 1 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 boiled egg
- Take 1 cucumber (sliced)
- Take 1/2 sweet onion (thinly sliced)
- Prepare peanuts
- Get Chicken
- Get 2 tbsp belachan
- Prepare 1 egg
- Make ready potato starch
- Take 1 chicken stock
- Take 1 tsp sugar
It's always served with Malaysian sambal (which there are hundreds of varieties), a hard boiled egg, fried peanuts and dried anchovies. But it is often served with many other Malaysian dishes too, like beef rendang or spicy eggplant and more! 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.
Instructions 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.
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 椰漿飯 is the breakfast and lunch staple in Malaysia. Wrapped in paper and banana leaves, Nasi Lemak Bungkus (wrapped coconut milk rice) has become the quintessential meal for the locals. Throughout my school years, I would savor nasi lemak, wrapped in green banana leaves, at least three times a week.
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