Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, nasi lemak. It is 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 current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Nasi Lemak is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
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 must prepare a few components. You can cook nasi lemak using 26 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nasi Lemak:
- Make ready Rice
- Make ready 1 can coconut milk
- Prepare 100 ml water
- Prepare 3 pandan leaves
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 3 slices ginger
- Take Sambal
- Take 15 dried red chillies (cleaned, deseeded, soaked)
- Prepare 4 garlic
- Get 6 big shallots
- Prepare 2 slices galangal
- Get 1 tsp belachan powder / belachan
- Get Main
- Take 20 Fried anchovies
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 boiled egg
- Prepare 1 cucumber (sliced)
- Prepare 1/2 sweet onion (thinly sliced)
- Make ready peanuts
- Prepare Chicken
- Prepare 2 tbsp belachan
- Take 1 egg
- Prepare potato starch
- Take 1 chicken stock
- Get 1 tsp sugar
Nasi lemak is Malaysia's most famous food, and literally means "coconut rice". 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! To cook the rice, add the rice, coconut milk and lemongrass into a saucepan.
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.
But it is often served with many other Malaysian dishes too, like beef rendang or spicy eggplant and more! To cook the rice, add the rice, coconut milk and lemongrass into a saucepan. Settle the rice evenly into the bottom of the saucepan. Nasi lemak is a simple yet emotionally complexing dish consisting of fragrant rice cooked with coconut milk (known as santan) and sometimes pandan leaf, served with a side of deep-fried anchovies, ground nuts, an egg, cucumber slices, and sambal chili—a sweet spicy gravy. Nasi lemak - Malaysian coconut milk rice, served with sambal, fried crispy anchovies, toasted peanuts and cucumber.
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