Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, nasi lemak. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nasi Lemak is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Nasi Lemak is something which I have loved my entire 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 a medium saucepan over medium heat, stir together coconut milk, water, ground ginger, ginger root, salt, bay leaf, and rice.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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
- Get 1 can coconut milk
- Get 100 ml water
- Get 3 pandan leaves
- Take 1 tsp salt
- Get 3 slices ginger
- Take Sambal
- Make ready 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
- Get 20 Fried anchovies
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Prepare 1 tbsp sugar
- Get 2 boiled egg
- Prepare 1 cucumber (sliced)
- Prepare 1/2 sweet onion (thinly sliced)
- Take peanuts
- Take Chicken
- Make ready 2 tbsp belachan
- Prepare 1 egg
- Make ready potato starch
- Prepare 1 chicken stock
- Take 1 tsp sugar
This amazing dish served with 'sambal' and a variety of delicious side dishes is a wholesome appetizing meal. For the nasi lemak Prepare the coconut rice: Wash the rice by gently rubbing it with your fingers in a bowl filled with water. When the water becomes cloudy, drain the water and repeat the process until the water is clear. Place the rice in a large saucepan and add the salt, garlic, ginger, pandan leaves, coconut milk, and water.
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.
When the water becomes cloudy, drain the water and repeat the process until the water is clear. Place the rice in a large saucepan and add the salt, garlic, ginger, pandan leaves, coconut milk, and water. Marion's Kitchen is packed with simple and delicious Asian recipes and food ideas. 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. When a chicken leg as handsome as this one sits atop a bed of coconut milk rice, it's easy to forget that the other sides exist too.
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