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

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:
  1. Prepare For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
  2. Take 2.5 cup rice
  3. Prepare 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
  4. Prepare 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
  5. Get 2 Indonesian bay leaves
  6. Take 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
  7. Make ready to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
  8. Prepare For the chicken filling
  9. Take 300 gr breast chicken meat
  10. Get Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  12. Take 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. Make ready 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. Take 3 garlic cloves
  19. Make ready 2 candle nuts
  20. Take 2 cm fresh ginger
  21. Make ready 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. Get Fried silver fish (store bought)
  26. Take leaves Basil
  27. Take Banana leaves to wrap

Wrapped with banana leaves and grilled it makes the rice more fragrant. Staying at home in the rainy weekend pushed me back into the kitchen and cooked a special dish for whole family. I make Nasi Bakar / Grilled aromatic rice which is very simple and delicious. If you have leftover rice, this is a recipe you can rely on and serve a new variation of rice dish other than fried rice.

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.

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. Nasi Bakar is a fragrance rice with Indonesian's spices and anchovies wrapped in banana leaf and grilled. Many different variations in terms of the filling Grilled Rice or Nasi bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices, filled with shredded chicken; wrapped in banana leaves and later grilled. Pondok Nasi Bakar (Indonesian Grilled Rice).

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