Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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 favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must 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 cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Make ready For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Take 2.5 cup rice
- Take 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
- Make ready 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Prepare to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Make ready For the chicken filling
- Take 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Get Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Take 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Prepare Salt, pepper, sugar
- Get 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Prepare Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Get 4 pcs big red chillies
- Make ready 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Take 5 shallots
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Prepare 2 candle nuts
- Take 2 cm fresh ginger
- Take 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
- Prepare 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Make ready Others:
- Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Get leaves Basil
- Make ready Banana leaves to wrap
The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption. 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 At a glance, the cooking technique for nasi bakar (grilled rice in banana leaf) is highly similar to that of fried rice.
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.
However, The Westin Jakarta's executive sous chef Denny Boy Gunawan says. 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 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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