Simple Way to Make Favorite Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar
- By Vernon Burke
- 19 Apr, 2020
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar Recipe. How to prepare it? What are the ingredients? Cooking tips and more… It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty.
#nasibakar #indonesianfood #smoke #rice #bananaleaves #cooking We did grill because we wanna taste of banana leaves. Coconut rice is cooked with aromatic herbs topped with chicken and basil and then wrapped with banana leaves and grilled to perfection.
Here is the best “Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar” recipe we have found so far. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Ingredients of Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar
- It’s of For the rice (cook in rice cooker).
- Prepare 2.5 cup of rice.
- Take 1.5 cup of coconut milk and 1 cup of water.
- Make ready 1 pcs of lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section.
- Make ready 2 of Indonesian bay leaves.
- Take 2 cm of galangal/blue ginger (smashed).
- Prepare to taste of Salt and chicken seasoning.
- It’s of For the chicken filling.
- Prepare 300 gr of breast chicken meat.
- Take of Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like.
- Take 1 tbsp of oyster sauce.
- You need of Salt, pepper, sugar.
- You need 3 of lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly).
- Make ready of Spice Paste (put everything in food processor).
- Make ready 4 pcs of big red chillies.
- It’s 2 pcs of chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy).
- Make ready 5 of shallots.
- It’s 3 of garlic cloves.
- Make ready 2 of candle nuts.
- Make ready 2 cm of fresh ginger.
- It’s 2 cm of fresh turmeric.
- Make ready 2 cm of galangal/blue ginger.
- Make ready 1 stalk of lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince.
- Prepare of Others:.
- It’s of Fried silver fish (store bought).
- Make ready leaves of Basil.
- Prepare of Banana leaves to wrap.
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Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar step by step
- 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..
Unwrapping each packet to devour it is even more amazing !JUMP TO RECIPE The prospect of.Nasi bakar (Indonesian for "burned or grilled rice") refer to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (small needle made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled upon charcoal fire.
Continuous rainfall for the last several days has caused heavy flooding in some places around Jakarta.At a glance, the cooking technique for nasi bakar (grilled rice in banana leaf) is highly similar to that of fried rice.However, The Westin Jakarta's executive sous chef Denny Boy Gunawan says that the banana leaf used in nasi bakar sets the differences between the two dishes.Nasi Bakar (rice cooked in banana leaf).At a glance, the cooking technique for nasi bakar (grilled rice in banana leaf) is highly similar to that of fried rice.