Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we must 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Take For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Make ready 2.5 cup rice
- Prepare 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Prepare 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)
- Take to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Make ready For the chicken filling
- Get 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Prepare Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
- Make ready 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
- Make ready 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Get 5 shallots
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Get 2 candle nuts
- Get 2 cm fresh ginger
- Make ready 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Take Others:
- Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Make ready leaves Basil
- Get Banana leaves to wrap
Many different variations in terms of the filling Nasi Bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaves secured with lidi semat (here I used toothpicks) and grilled upon charcoal fire. The burned banana leaves produced a unique aroma upon the rice. (source: Wikipedia) IG @jenscookingdiary @jenscookdineandtravel 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. Banana leaf adds unique flavor to the rice and good natural food wrapper indeed. Seasoned rice has savory taste and usually filled with chicken cubes, fish chunks, meat, mushroom or vegetables.
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.
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. 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. The banana leaves are then rolled and grilled for a few minutes.
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