Nasi Lemak

Like to spice up your coconut milk rice with sambal? Let me give a clue to you, and it’s a famous Malaysian dish. I hope You’ve guessed it. I tried this week and enjoyed it. I tell you the “Nasi Lemak” recipe, and you try it yourself to enjoy the taste. Let’s get started!

Preparation Time: 10 mins	Recipe Servings: 2
Cook Time: 35 mins	Download Recipe
Total Time: 45 mins

Ingredients for Coconut Milk Rice:

1 cup Raw Rice [soaked for 20 minutes]
8 Garlic cloves
1 piece sliced Ginger
1 medium sliced Onion
4 Pandan leaves
2 cups Coconut Milk
1/2 cup Water
Salt

Ingredients for Sambal:

20 Dried Red Chilly [soaked in hot water for 10 minutes]
4 medium roughly chopped Onion
8 cloves Garlic
4 pieces Dried Anchovies [Nethili Karuvadu]
A small piece of Ginger
4 tbsp Oil
1/4 cup Peanuts
1/4 cup Dried Anchovies
1/2 tsp Chilly Powder
Salt
1/4 tsp Turmeric Powder
3 tbsp Tamarind Juice
1 tbsp Sugar
half sliced Onion

Step 1 – Making Coconut Milk Rice:

Take 1 cup of raw rice and soak it for 20 minutes. Put the soaked rice in a cooker. Add eight garlic cloves, one piece of sliced ginger, one medium sliced onion, and four pandan leaves.

Pour 2 cups of coconut milk along with a half cup of water. Finally, add salt as per your need. Close the lid and cook it for three whistles with medium heat. Coconut milk rice is ready, and keep it aside for serving.

Step 2 – Making Sambal:

Get 20 pieces of dried red chilly, soak it in water for 20 minutes, and add the soaked red chilly pieces into the mixie jar. Put four medium-sized and roughly chopped onion into it. Add eight cloves of garlic and four dried anchovies. You can add more anchovies according to your taste preference. Add a small piece of ginger, and little water to make a smooth paste in a mixie.

Add 4 tbsp of oil to a vessel and keep the flame with medium heat. Add 1/4 cup of peanuts and fry it well. Keep the fried peanuts aside for later use.

Put 1/4 cup of dried anchovies, 1/2 tsp of chilly powder, required salt, 1/4 tsp of turmeric powder, and fry it well. Keep this fried anchovies mixture too aside.

Add the ground sambal paste made earlier from the mixie jar into the same vessel. Add little water to the mixie jar, mix it well, and add its water into the vessel. Add required salt as per your preference and mix it well. Cook for 10-12 minutes until oil separates.

Pour 3 tbsp of tamarind juice extract and 1 tbsp of sugar into it. You can adjust the quantity of tamarind according to your taste. Cook it for a minute. Add half onion into it, but this time it is sliced onion. It’s time to add earlier fried anchovies and mix it well. Simmer the flame and cook it for 5 minutes. Now, sambal is ready!

Serving Nasi Lemak:

You serve the nasi lemak rice in a banana leaf. It goes well with fried chicken, but it is optional. Put your boiled egg, sambal, fried peanuts, sliced cucumber, fried anchovies to enjoy your nasi lemak!