Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Indonesian Grilled Rice with Banana Leaves (Nasi Bakar) Rice is the main commodity for most of the eastern country. It exists as the main component of every dish in those country. Japan has Sushi and Onigiri, South Korean has Kimbab, Malaysia has Nasi Lemak, and Indonesia has Fried Rice.
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Get For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Make ready 2.5 cup rice
- Get 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Get 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Prepare 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Take to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Get For the chicken filling
- Get 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Take Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
- Prepare 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Get Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Prepare 4 pcs big red chillies
- Prepare 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Prepare 5 shallots
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Take 2 candle nuts
- Prepare 2 cm fresh ginger
- Make ready 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Prepare 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Get Others:
- Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Get leaves Basil
- Make ready Banana leaves to wrap
Every time I made one, he'll finish it in no time and ask me for the second serving with additional spoon of the salted fish. This is a… Nasi Bakar is a fragrance rice with Indonesian's spices and anchovies wrapped in banana leaf and grilled. The grilled banana leaves will give an aromatic aroma to this dish. #MyCookbook Grilled Stuffed Rice In Banana Leaves (Nasi Bakar) (Happy Call) Very well loved by Indonesians This authentic Indonesian dish is basically rice cooked in coconut milk wrapped in banana leaves with some fillings at the centre, and then grilled. Let's us cook a fantastic Grilled Pandan Coconut Rice, which is also one of the traditional food in Malaysia with an interesting twist.
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.
Since this rice need to be grilled with banana leaf, it will. It might sound weird, but Nasi Bakar (baked rice) is one of the most favorite dishes in Indonesia. It is made of cooked rice that has been mixed with vegetables, meat (fish, beef or chicken), then wrapped in banana leaf like Lontong, and baked over charcoal. Nasi bakar daun pisang /Nasi Bakar ( a.k.a Grilled Rice)is delicious yummy food from Indonesia. Wrapped with banana leaves and grilled it makes the rice more fragrant.
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