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    Nasi Lemak Recipe

    March 31, 2023 By Aarthi 1 Comment

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    Nasi lemak recipe is a Malay cuisine dish consisting of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. It is commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish. Nasi Lemak is often served for breakfast.

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    TABLE OF CONTENTS
    1. About Nasi Lemak Recipe
    2. Video for Nasi Lemak Recipe
    3. 📖 Recipe
    4. Nasi Lemak Recipe with Step by Step Pictures
    5. Tips & Tricks
    6. Frequently Asked Questions
    7. Recipe Variations

    Nasi Lemak Recipe

    This is a Malay cuisine dish consisting of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. It is commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish. Nasi Lemak is often served for breakfast. However, because nasi lemak can be served in a variety of ways, it is often eaten throughout the day.

    About Nasi Lemak Recipe

    Nasi Lemak, is a platter which consists of coconut milk, pandan flavoured rice which is served along side with a spicy sambal which has chillies, garlic, onions. This nasi lemak is also served with an additional sides like cucumber, fried anchovies, boiled eggs and peanuts.

    A popular condiment in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, sambal is a sauce made from chilies, spices, herbs, and aromatics. It has a complex flavor that is all at once earthy, spicy, and hot. The traditional way of grinding the spices to make the sambal starter paste is to use a stone mortar and pestle. But you can use a blender to fasten the process.

    You will love my Sambal Chicken & Sago Cake/ Kuih Sago

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    Video for Nasi Lemak Recipe

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    How to Make Perfect Rice for Nasi Lemak

    1. Use fragrant jasmine rice if you can.
    2. Soak rice in water for 30 mins so it cooks faster.
    3. Cook the rice in thick coconut milk.
    4. Add pandan leaf for maximum flavour. Pandan leaf adds so much flavour to the rice.
    5. Add salt.

    How to Make Perfect Sambal:

    1. Grind the sambal coarse so you get nice texture of the onions and chillies
    2. Always taste and adjust tamarind, jaggery.
    3. Add good amount of chillies for heat and colour.
    4. Cook the sambal till oil separates.
    5. Use generous amount of oil.
    6. You can add dried prawns or belachan taste for more umami flavour.

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    Hope you will give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

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    If you have any questions not covered in this post and if you need help, leave me a comment or mail me @[email protected] and I’ll help as soon as I can.

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    Nasi Lemak | Nasi Lemak Recipe

    Aarthi
    Malaysian Nasi Lemak is easy to make and taste delicious. This popular breakfast is so yummy and is healthy as well.
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    Prep Time 15 minutes mins
    Cook Time 30 minutes mins
    Total Time 45 minutes mins
    Course Breakfast
    Cuisine Malaysian
    Servings 2 servings
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    Ingredients
      

    For Rice:

    • Basmati Rice or Short grain rice - 1 cup
    • Coconut Milk - 2 cups
    • Pandan Leaf or Ramba Ila - 1
    • Salt to taste

    For Sambal:

    • Small onion - 10
    • Onion - 1 chopped
    • Dry Red Chillies - 10 to 15
    • Ginger - 1 small pieces
    • Garlic - 6
    • Lemon Grass - 1
    • Salt to taste
    • Jaggery - 4 tblsp
    • Tamarind paste - 2 tblsp
    • Oil - ¼ cup

    For Serving:

    • Cucumber
    • Dried anchovies
    • Fried peanuts
    • Boiled eggs

    Instructions
     

    • Start by washing and soaking rice for 30 mins. Now take it in a sauce pan.
    • Add salt, pandan leaf, coconut milk and mix well.
    • Bring it to a boil. Cover and simmer for 15 mins till rice is cooked completely.
    • Fluff up the rice and cover again. Set aside so it stays warm.
    • Now make sambal. Grind all ingredients except tamarind and jaggery to a coarse paste.
    • Heat oil and add the coarsely ground masala. Cook till raw smell leaves.
    • Now add in tamarind and jaggery and mix well.
    • Cook till oil separates. Set aside.
    • Now fry some anchovies and peanuts.
    • Boil some eggs.
    • Serve sambal with rice, cucumber, peanuts, anchovies and boiled egg.
    • Serve hot.

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    Nasi Lemak Recipe with Step by Step Pictures

    1)Take all ingredients for sambal

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    2)Take all ingredients in a blender except palm sugar and tamarind.

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    3)Now it is smooth.

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    4)Heat oil in a pan. Add in ground sambal.

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    5)Mix well

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    6)Mix well and cook

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    7)Add tamarind paste

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    8)Add in palm jaggery

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    9)Mix well and cook on low heat till oil separates.

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    10)You need pandan leaf for the rice.

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    11)Add in washed rice in a pot.

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    12)coconut milk

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    13)Add in pandan leaf

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    14)Add in salt

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    15)Bring it to a boil.

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    16)Cover and cook on a low heat till rice is completely cooked.

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    17)Rice is cooked.

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    18)Fluff up the rice and cover and set aside

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    19)Now prepare all the sides. Take cucumber and slice them.

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    20)Fry some peanuts.

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    21)Fry some anchovies

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    22)Set aside

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    23)Boil some eggs and set aside.

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    24)Take a serving plate.

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    25)Now take some rice and mould it

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    27)Un mould it in a plate

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    28)Spoon in some sambal

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    29)fried anchovies

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    29)Add in fried peanuts

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    30)Add eggs and cucumbers

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    31)Serve

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    Tips & Tricks

    • After the sambal is cooked, ladle as much of the hot sauce as you want onto your main dish or rice. The rest of the sambal should cool before storing in fridge or freezer.
    • The frozen sambal will keep for 2 to 3 months. It's best to freeze it in smaller containers and take out what you need for each meal.
    • Most of the ingredients can be found at Asian markets or high-quality grocery stores with a robust international foods aisle.

    Frequently Asked Questions

    How long can we store Sambal?

    You can make a huge batch and store in a glass jar for over a month in fridge.

    What is Sambal?

    Sambal is a spicy sauce made using red chillies, ginger, garlic, lemon grass, galangal, tamarind, palm sugar, onions and shallots. The paste is cooked in oil till the raw smell goes and the paste gets thick and oily.

    Recipe Variations

    • Instead of shallots, you can use small red onions.
    • In place of the dried chilies, add chilli powder.
    • If fresh turmeric is unavailable, use turmeric powder.
    • If galangal is difficult to find you can use a 1-inch piece of fresh ginger.
    • Instead of tamarind paste, use tamarind juice instead.

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    Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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