Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, grilled rice in banana leaves/nasi bakar. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

#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. There are so many versions of nasi bakar out there and honestly, there aren't really any right or wrong recipes if you ask me. 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.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to 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. Get For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
2. Get 2.5 cup rice
3. Take 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
4. Make ready 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
5. Prepare 2 Indonesian bay leaves
6. Get 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
7. Take to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
8. Get For the chicken filling
9. Make ready 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. Prepare Salt, pepper, sugar
13. Get 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. Get 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
17. Prepare 5 shallots
18. Get 3 garlic cloves
19. Make ready 2 candle nuts
20. Make ready 2 cm fresh ginger
21. Make ready 2 cm fresh turmeric
22. Prepare 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
23. Get 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
24. Prepare Others:
25. Prepare Fried silver fish (store bought)
26. Make ready leaves Basil
27. Prepare Banana leaves to wrap

Grilled aromatic rice wrapped in banana leaves. Continuous rainfall for the last several days has caused heavy flooding in some places around Jakarta. Nasi bakar or literrary translated as grilled (burned) rice is an Indonesian rice dish which is sounds impossible to do without any wrapper. Traditionally, nasi bakar usually wrapped in banana leaf before grilled over arang batok kelapa or coconut shell charcoal.

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.

Nasi bakar or literrary translated as grilled (burned) rice is an Indonesian rice dish which is sounds impossible to do without any wrapper. Traditionally, nasi bakar usually wrapped in banana leaf before grilled over arang batok kelapa or coconut shell charcoal. 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).

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