Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular 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 cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Take For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Make ready rice
- Prepare coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Take lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Take Indonesian bay leaves
- Make ready galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
- Get Salt and chicken seasoning
- Get For the chicken filling
- Get breast chicken meat
- Prepare Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Take oyster sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
- Get lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Prepare Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Prepare big red chillies
- Prepare chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Take shallots
- Get garlic cloves
- Get candle nuts
- Prepare fresh ginger
- Take fresh turmeric
- Take galangal/blue ginger
- Make ready lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Prepare Others:
- Make ready Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Prepare Basil
- Prepare Banana leaves to wrap
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.
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