Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Grilled Rice or Nasi bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices, filled with shredded chicken; wrapped in banana leaves and later grilled. 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. #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.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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

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. Banana leaf rice is a traditional method of serving rice dishes in South Indian cuisine. Due to the migration of South Indians, banana leaf rice can also be found in areas with significant ethnic South Indian diaspora such as Malaysia and Singapore.

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.

Coconut rice is cooked with aromatic herbs and then wrapped with banana leaves and grilled to perfection. I'm telling you the aroma of grilled banana leaves imparted to the rice is AMAZING ! Unwrapping each packet to devour it is even more amazing ! JUMP TO RECIPE The prospect of. Famous with Grilled Rice (covered by banana leaf), this place neat and clean.

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