Steps to Prepare Perfect Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:

1. Get For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
2. Prepare rice
3. Take coconut milk and 1 cup of water
4. Take lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
5. Prepare Indonesian bay leaves
6. Get galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
7. Make ready Salt and chicken seasoning
8. Prepare For the chicken filling
9. Prepare breast chicken meat
10. Get Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
11. Take oyster sauce
12. Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
13. Get lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
14. Prepare Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
15. Get big red chillies
16. Take chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
17. Take shallots
18. Prepare garlic cloves
19. Prepare candle nuts
20. Make ready fresh ginger
21. Make ready fresh turmeric
22. Prepare galangal/blue ginger
23. Take lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
24. Take Others:
25. Get Fried silver fish (store bought)
26. Make ready Basil
27. Take Banana leaves to wrap

Instructions 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.

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