Step-by-Step Guide to Make Award-winning Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

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Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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. Take leaves Basil; Make ready Banana leaves to wrap; Instructions to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar: Rinse the rice.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:

1. Get For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
2. Take 2.5 cup rice
3. Make ready 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
4. Take 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
5. Get 2 Indonesian bay leaves
6. Make ready 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
7. Make ready to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
8. Get For the chicken filling
9. Prepare 300 gr breast chicken meat
10. Take Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
11. Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
12. Get Salt, pepper, sugar
13. Take 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
14. Prepare Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
15. Prepare 4 pcs big red chillies
16. Make ready 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
17. Take 5 shallots
18. Make ready 3 garlic cloves
19. Take 2 candle nuts
20. Get 2 cm fresh ginger
21. Take 2 cm fresh turmeric
22. Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
23. Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
24. Prepare Others:
25. Prepare Fried silver fish (store bought)
26. Get leaves Basil
27. Prepare Banana leaves to wrap

Originating from Kelantan, nasi tumpang and condiments were packed in a banana leaf cone, so that farmers could take them to the paddy field for lunch. 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 Nasi bakar / Grilled aromatic rice is a parcel of cooked and seasoned rice wrapped in banana leaves with various fillings and then grilled until fragrant. Banana leaf adds unique flavor to the rice and good natural food wrapper indeed.

Steps 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.

Many different variations in terms of the filling Nasi bakar / Grilled aromatic rice is a parcel of cooked and seasoned rice wrapped in banana leaves with various fillings and then grilled until fragrant. Banana leaf adds unique flavor to the rice and good natural food wrapper indeed. Seasoned rice has savory taste and usually filled with chicken cubes, fish chunks, meat, mushroom or vegetables. Grilled rice in banana leaves #Asia food Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, grilled rice in banana leaves #asia food.

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