Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

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#nasibakar #indonesianfood #smoke #rice #bananaleaves #cooking We did grill because we wanna taste of banana leaves. There are so many versions of nasi bakar out there and honestly, there aren't really any right or wrong recipes if you ask me. That's why I love cooking because it's I cook my rice in coconut milk and aromatic herbs, packed in some chicken and fresh herb, wrapped them in banana leaves and grill them so that the. Halo teman, Nasi bakar siapa sih yang ga suka!

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook 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:
  1. Make ready For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
  2. Make ready 2.5 cup rice
  3. Make ready 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
  4. Make ready 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
  5. Get 2 Indonesian bay leaves
  6. Make ready 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
  7. Take to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
  8. Make ready For the chicken filling
  9. Get 300 gr breast chicken meat
  10. Take Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
  11. Take 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  12. Take Salt, pepper, sugar
  13. Make ready 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
  14. Make ready Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
  15. Get 4 pcs big red chillies
  16. Get 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
  17. Make ready 5 shallots
  18. Prepare 3 garlic cloves
  19. Prepare 2 candle nuts
  20. Get 2 cm fresh ginger
  21. Prepare 2 cm fresh turmeric
  22. Prepare 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
  23. Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
  24. Get Others:
  25. Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
  26. Prepare leaves Basil
  27. Take Banana leaves to wrap

Nasi bakar (Indonesian for "burned or grilled rice") refer to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (small needle made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled upon charcoal fire. The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. Traditionally, nasi bakar usually wrapped in banana leaf before grilled over arang batok kelapa or coconut shell charcoal. The wrapped nasi bakar mixture is Nasi bakar got a nice scent of banana leaf and also smoky flavour due to the prior grilling.

Instructions to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
  1. 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.
  2. Put all ingredients for the spice paste in food processor until become a very smooth paste.
  3. For chicken filling: boil the chicken breast until fully cooked and shred the chicken.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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)
  8. Grilled this wrapped rice in your griller. I use happycall pan as I do not have a griller :)
  9. Ready to serve :) It is very fragrant and tasty.
  10. 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.

Traditionally, nasi bakar usually wrapped in banana leaf before grilled over arang batok kelapa or coconut shell charcoal. The wrapped nasi bakar mixture is Nasi bakar got a nice scent of banana leaf and also smoky flavour due to the prior grilling. Nasi bakar usually lightly seasoned with garlic, red shallots and. Banana Leaf Rice Banana Leaves Grain Foods I Foods Nasi Bakar Rice Wraps Spicy Dishes Indonesian Cuisine Food Plating. Grilled aromatic rice wrapped in banana leaves.

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