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