Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my whole life.
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. Nasi Bakar (rice cooked in banana leaf).
To get started 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:
- Get For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Get 2.5 cup rice
- Make ready 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Make ready 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Prepare 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Make ready 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Make ready to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Get For the chicken filling
- Get 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Make ready Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Prepare 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Prepare Salt, pepper, sugar
- Get 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Make ready 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)
- Get 5 shallots
- Make ready 3 garlic cloves
- Make ready 2 candle nuts
- Take 2 cm fresh ginger
- Get 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Take 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Take 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Make ready Others:
- Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Take leaves Basil
- Take Banana leaves to wrap
Heat the grill pan over medium high-heat. Nasi bakar (grilled rice") refer to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled. The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption.
Steps 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.
The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption. This is one of our favourite menus among our customers, some of them even ask us to cook. 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. Many different variations in terms of the filling Nasi bakar / Grilled aromatic rice is a parcel of cooked and seasoned rice wrapped in banana leaves with various fillings and then grilled until fragrant.
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