Hello, I’m Joana. Today, I will show you a way to prepare grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a very easy recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I’m gonna make it a bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar Recipe
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To be 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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- Prepare For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
- Make ready 2.5 cup rice
- Prepare 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
- Get 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
- Prepare 2 Indonesian bay leaves
- Take 2 cm galangal/blue ger (smashed)
- Prepare to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
- Get For the chicken filling
- Make ready 300 gr breast chicken meat
- Get Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
- Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready Salt, pepper, sugar
- Prepare 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
- Take Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
- Prepare 4 pcs big red chillies
- Get 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
- Prepare 5 shallots
- Get 3 garlic cloves
- Take 2 candle nuts
- Make ready 2 cm fresh ger
- Prepare 2 cm fresh turmeric
- Make ready 2 cm galangal/blue ger
- Make ready 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
- Take Others:
- Take Fried silver fish (store bought)
- Get leaves Basil
- Make ready Banana leaves to wrap
Steps to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
- 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.
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