How to Prepare Award-winning Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. 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 unique. This will be really delicious.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to 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 cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:

1. Take For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
2. Make ready rice
3. Prepare coconut milk and 1 cup of water
4. Get lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
5. Prepare Indonesian bay leaves
6. Get galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
7. Take Salt and chicken seasoning
8. Get For the chicken filling
9. Make ready breast chicken meat
10. Take Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
11. Make ready oyster sauce
12. Take Salt, pepper, sugar
13. Get lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
14. Take Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
15. Make ready big red chillies
16. Get chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
17. Get shallots
18. Prepare garlic cloves
19. Prepare candle nuts
20. Make ready fresh ginger
21. Take fresh turmeric
22. Get galangal/blue ginger
23. Make ready lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
24. Make ready Others:
25. Take Fried silver fish (store bought)
26. Get Basil
27. Take Banana leaves to wrap

Steps 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.

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