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

Hello everybody, I 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 am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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 must 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:
  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. Make ready 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
  5. Prepare 2 Indonesian bay leaves
  6. Make ready 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
  7. Prepare to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
  8. Take For the chicken filling
  9. Prepare 300 gr breast chicken meat
  10. Make ready Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
  11. Take 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  12. Take Salt, pepper, sugar
  13. Get 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
  14. Prepare 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. Make ready 3 garlic cloves
  19. Take 2 candle nuts
  20. Prepare 2 cm fresh ginger
  21. Take 2 cm fresh turmeric
  22. Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
  23. Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
  24. Make ready Others:
  25. Prepare Fried silver fish (store bought)
  26. Prepare leaves Basil
  27. Make ready 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.

Steps 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.

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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