DELICIOUS RECIPES

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Sunday, January 11, 2009

NASI LEMAK


Nasi Lemak is Malaysia's No 1 Delicasy. It is considered as a balance diet food as it contain protien,fat,fiber,cabrbohidrate,vitamins and minerals. In Malaysia people never get bored eating nasi lemak even if they have it everyday

Nasi Lemak

Rice Ingredients

2 cups of rice
1cup of coconut milk
1 screwpine leave
1 inch ginger (cut into strips)
a pinch of salt


Gravy - (Sambal) Ingredients

5 big onions -sliced 4 of the onions
1 bowl grinded dried chili.(Cut dried chilies into pieces and boil. Drain and put aside)
4 pics garlic
1 large tomato

Add On or Condiments


2 hard boilded eggs(cut into half or quarters)
1/2 cucumber sliced
1/2 cup fried anchovies
1/2 cup fried peanuts


Rice Preparation

Wash and drain 2 cups of rice, You will need 3 cups of water to cook 2 cups of rice.
Replace 1 cup of water with coconut milk. (2 cups of water and 1 cup of coconut milk).
Add ginger and salt.
Tie the screwpine leaf in a knot and drop in the rice cooker.
Cook rice as how you cook rice your rice daily
You will get a beautiful aroma while the rice is cooking

Gravy preparation.

Add one onions (cut into large cubes), garlics and one tomato into blender.
Add grinded chili and blend all ingredients together until the texture is smooth.

Heat oil in a pan add the 4 sliced onions. Saute onions till golden brown and add the smooth grinded chili paste and fry the chili until it becomes dry and dark. Add a little more oil if the gravy is too dry. When chili paste is fried until reddish brown colour, add fried anchovies ,add little water, salt and tamarind juice. Remove gravy in a container.

Serving

Put rice in a small bowl, press and overturn bowl onto a plate. Your rice will be moulded by the small bowl. Add gravy(sambal) sliced cucumber, fried peanuts,hard boiled egg and anchovies. Enjoy this tasty,spicy delight.
You can have nasi lemak at any time of the day. Brakfast , lunch or dinner.
Once you try you will not want to stop. Practice makes perfect.

Recipes by Selvia. For more recipes you can visit http://recepiesevergreen.blogspot.com/

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