Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar. Prepare your banana leaves, you are going to roll all of the rice in those banana leaves like you roll a sushi, so adjust the measurement as you like. Nasi bakar (Indonesian for "burned or grilled rice") refer to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (small needle made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled upon charcoal fire. The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice.

The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption. how to make grilled rice (nasi bakar) grilled rice is rice spiced coconut milk (uduk rice, liwet rice) wrapped in banana leaf, because seasoned, grilled rice becomes more tasty although eaten without side dishes, but usually inside it is filled with anchovy, shrimp, squid, chicken filet or minced meat plus chili sauce and basil. At a glance, the cooking technique for nasi bakar (grilled rice in banana leaf) is highly similar to that of fried rice. You can have Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar using 27 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar

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

However, The Westin Jakarta's executive sous chef Denny Boy Gunawan says. " Coconut rice is cooked with aromatic herbs topped with tuna and basil and then wrapped with banana leaves and grilled to perfection. Can be made with rice cooker or stove-top " Nasi bakar is my definition of fancy comfort food !!! lazymommywholikesspicy France. Banana leaves (you need a lot!) There are just so many reasons to love Nasi Bakar! Especially the mixed fragrance of the basil or mint leaves, charred banana leaves, the spiciness of the chicken and the wonderful coconut rice.

Grilled Rice in Banana Leaves/Nasi Bakar step by step

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..
Put all ingredients for the spice paste in food processor until become a very smooth paste..
For chicken filling: boil the chicken breast until fully cooked and shred the chicken..
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..
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..
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.
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).
Grilled this wrapped rice in your griller. I use happycall pan as I do not have a griller :).
Ready to serve :) It is very fragrant and tasty..
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..

Nasi Bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaves secured with lidi semat (here I used toothpicks) and grilled upon charcoal fire. The burned banana leaves produced a unique aroma upon the rice. (source: Wikipedia) IG @jenscookingdiary @jenscookdineandtravel Nasi Bakar is a fragrance rice with Indonesian's spices and anchovies wrapped in banana leaf and grilled. The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice. The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption. A variation on the classic nasi timbel where freshly steamed rice is wrapped in banana leaves, the nasi bakar is upgraded with seasonal ingredients wrapped in banana leaves before being grilled.