Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe site. 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 am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Make ready For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
  2. Get 2.5 cup rice
  3. Take 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
  4. Get 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
  5. Take 2 Indonesian bay leaves
  6. Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
  7. Get to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
  8. Prepare For the chicken filling
  9. Take 300 gr breast chicken meat
  10. Prepare Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  12. Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
  13. Prepare 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
  14. Take Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
  15. Make ready 4 pcs big red chillies
  16. Take 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
  17. Make ready 5 shallots
  18. Prepare 3 garlic cloves
  19. Make ready 2 candle nuts
  20. Make ready 2 cm fresh ginger
  21. Get 2 cm fresh turmeric
  22. Take 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
  23. Get 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
  24. Take Others:
  25. Get Fried silver fish (store bought)
  26. Get leaves Basil
  27. Get Banana leaves to wrap

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. 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.

Instructions to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
  1. 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.
  2. Put all ingredients for the spice paste in food processor until become a very smooth paste.
  3. For chicken filling: boil the chicken breast until fully cooked and shred the chicken.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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
  7. 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)
  8. Grilled this wrapped rice in your griller. I use happycall pan as I do not have a griller :)
  9. Ready to serve :) It is very fragrant and tasty.
  10. 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.

Mom's Nasi Bakar is so flavorful! Grilled Rice or Nasi bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices, filled with shredded chicken; wrapped in banana leaves and later grilled. The grilled banana leaves will give an aromatic aroma to this dish. #MyCookbook Introducing the Indonesian Nasi Bakar; rich, aromatic, spice-infused rice wrapped in banana leaves and grilled over to perfection served with a plethora of mouth-watering side dishes and a special secret sambal recipe. Bara reintroduces traditional Indonesian flavours to the Singaporean diners amidst the sea of penyets and padang options. In Indonesia, we have a dish called "Nasi Bakar," which roughly trasnlates to "Grilled Rice." Many Indonesian foods are wrapped in banana leaf to provide more flavor or to preserve the food.

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