Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, nasi lemak. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Nasi lemak, a spicy coconut rice, is the national dish of Malaysia, where it is eaten for breakfast. If that is a little too adventurous, it makes a great weekend dinner for friends. Nasi lemak - Malaysian coconut milk rice, served with sambal, fried crispy anchovies, toasted peanuts and cucumber. This is the best and most authentic nasi lemak recipe!
Nasi Lemak is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Nasi Lemak is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook nasi lemak using 26 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Nasi Lemak:
- Prepare Rice
- Make ready 1 can coconut milk
- Take 100 ml water
- Get 3 pandan leaves
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 3 slices ginger
- Make ready Sambal
- Make ready 15 dried red chillies (cleaned, deseeded, soaked)
- Prepare 4 garlic
- Make ready 6 big shallots
- Make ready 2 slices galangal
- Prepare 1 tsp belachan powder / belachan
- Take Main
- Prepare 20 Fried anchovies
- Make ready 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tbsp sugar
- Take 2 boiled egg
- Prepare 1 cucumber (sliced)
- Prepare 1/2 sweet onion (thinly sliced)
- Take peanuts
- Make ready Chicken
- Take 2 tbsp belachan
- Get 1 egg
- Take potato starch
- Prepare 1 chicken stock
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
Nasi Lemak is undoubtedly the national dish that represents Malaysia and the most popular traditional dish in Malaysia, both for Malaysians and around the world. Nasi lemak is Malaysia's most famous food, and literally means "coconut rice". It's always served with Malaysian sambal (which there are hundreds of varieties), a hard boiled egg, fried peanuts and dried anchovies. But it is often served with many other Malaysian dishes too, like beef rendang or spicy eggplant and more!
Steps to make Nasi Lemak:
- Marinate chicken for at least 2 hours.
- Blend the ingredients for the sambal.
- In a pot, add sambal paste and oil.
- Then add the 1/2 onions, fried anchovies, salt and sugar. (do not add fried shallots, it will make it bitter!)
- Cover chicken with the potato starch and deep fried it.
- Cook the rice now.
- Serve rice with peanuts, cucumber, sambal and chicken.
It's always served with Malaysian sambal (which there are hundreds of varieties), a hard boiled egg, fried peanuts and dried anchovies. But it is often served with many other Malaysian dishes too, like beef rendang or spicy eggplant and more! Nasi lemak literally means 'rice' and 'fat'. However, the 'fat' refers to the creaminess of the coconut milk which is used in cooking the rice. Nasi Lemak means Creamy Rice in Malay.
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