Step-by-Step Guide to Make Homemade Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

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Many things affect the quality of taste from Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar, starting from the type of ingredients, then the selection of fresh ingredients, the ability to cut dishes to how to make and serve them. Don't worry if you want to prepare Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar delicious at home, because if you already know the trick then this dish can be used as an extraordinary special treat.

As for the number of servings that can be served to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar is 7-8 pcs. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Grilled Rice or Nasi bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices, filled with shredded chicken; wrapped in banana leaves and later grilled. The grilled banana leaves will give an aromatic aroma to this dish.

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Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar:

1. For the rice (cook in rice cooker)
2. 2.5 cup rice
3. 1.5 cup coconut milk and 1 cup of water
4. 1 pcs lemongrass, take the white part, pound and cut in big section
5. 2 Indonesian bay leaves
6. 2 cm galangal/blue ginger (smashed)
7. to taste Salt and chicken seasoning
8. For the chicken filling
9. 300 gr breast chicken meat
10. Stinky beans (petai/pete) skip this if you don’t like
11. 1 tbsp oyster sauce
12. Salt, pepper, sugar
13. 3 lime leaves (remove the hard part and slice thinly)
14. Spice Paste (put everything in food processor)
15. 4 pcs big red chillies
16. 2 pcs chilli padi / bird’s eye chilli (omit this if you don’t want spicy)
17. 5 shallots
18. 3 garlic cloves
19. 2 candle nuts
20. 2 cm fresh ginger
21. 2 cm fresh turmeric
22. 2 cm galangal/blue ginger
23. 1 stalk lemongrass, take only the white part and finely mince
24. Others:
25. Fried silver fish (store bought)
26. leaves Basil
27. Banana leaves to wrap

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.

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