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Nasi Lemak


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Why I Love This Recipe

Nasi Lemak is considered the national dish found in Malaysia. The dish contains rice with cooked coconut milk with dried anchovies on top. Rice is the main food and is eaten at least once a day. Malays eat rice with fish or meat curry and vegetables cooked in various ways.


Ingredients You'll Need

Coconut Milk Steamed Rice

2 cups of rice
3 screwpine leaves (tie them into a knot as shown above)
Salt to taste
1 small can of coconut milk (5.6 oz size)
Some water

Tamarind Juice

1 cup of water
Tamarind pulp (size of a small ping pong ball)

Sambal Ikan Bilis (Dried anchovies sambal)

1/2 red onion
1 cup ikan bilis (dried anchovies)
1 clove garlic
4 shallots
10 dried chilies
1 teaspoon of belacan (prawn paste)
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of sugar

Other ingredients


2 hard boiled eggs (cut into half)
3 small fish (sardines or smelt fish)
1 small cucumber (cut into slices and then quartered)


Directions

1. Just like making steamed rice, rinse your rice and drain. Add the coconut milk, a pinch of salt, and some water. Add the pandan leaves into the rice and cook your rice.


2. Rinse the dried anchovies and drain the water. Fry the anchovies until they turn light brown and put aside.


3. Pound the prawn paste together with shallots, garlic, and deseeded dried chilies with a mortar and pestle. You can also grind them with a food processor.


4. Slice the red onion into rings.


5. Soak the tamarind pulp in water for 15 minutes. Squeeze the tamarind constantly to extract the flavor into the water. Drain the pulp and save the tamarind juice.


6. Heat some oil in a pan and fry the spice paste until fragrant.


7. Add in the onion rings.


8. Add in the ikan bilis and stir well.


9. Add tamarind juice, salt, and sugar.


10. Simmer on low heat until the gravy thickens. Set aside.


11. Clean the small fish, cut them into half and season with salt. Deep fry.


12. Cut the cucumber into slices and then quartered into four small pieces.


13, Dish up the steamed coconut milk rice and pour some sambal ikan bilis on top of the rice.


14. Serve with fried fish, cucumber slices, and hard-boiled eggs.


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