Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
I make Nasi Bakar / Grilled aromatic rice which is very simple and delicious. If you have leftover rice, this is a recipe you can rely on and serve a new variation of rice dish other than fried rice. Even my son can eat two parcels in one go ! #nasibakar #indonesianfood #smoke #rice #bananaleaves #cooking We did grill because we wanna taste of banana leaves.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 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:
- Prepare For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Get 2.5 cup rice
- Make ready 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Get 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Get 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Take 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Get to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Prepare For the chicken filling
- Make ready 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Get Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Get Salt, pepper, sugar
- Make ready 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Make ready Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Take 4 pcs big red chillies
- Take 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Take 5 shallots
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves
- Get 2 candle nuts
- Get 2 cm fresh ginger
- Prepare 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Get 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Get Others:
- Get Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Get leaves Basil
- Get Banana leaves to wrap
JUMP TO RECIPE The prospect of. At a glance, the cooking technique for nasi bakar (grilled rice in banana leaf) is highly similar to that of fried rice. However, The Westin Jakarta's executive sous chef Denny Boy Gunawan says that the banana leaf used in nasi bakar sets the differences between the two dishes. Photo about Indonesian grilled rice in banana leaves with grilled tofu, cucumber, lettuce and chili sauce.
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.
Famous with Grilled Rice (covered by banana leaf), this place neat and clean. Provide also with small Mushola for moslem pray. 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. Sticky Rice in Banana Leaf - lovely street food. Note: It is not just sticky rice but it is a kind of Thai dessert.
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