Nasi Lemak

This is my family fav combination. We really love fish instead of chicken wings for a change.
The must have ingredients are : Sliced cucumbers, fried ikan bilis and sambal chilli.


Coconut Rice recipe:

~ 3 cups of Jasmine rice
~ 3-4 Fresh pandan leaves ( knotted)
~ 2 cup of coconut cream
~ 3 cups of water
~ 1 fresh lemon grass ( wash and smash)
~ 1 tsp of grinded ginger
~ 1 pinch of salt

Methods :
~ Wash the rice first.
~ Place all the ingredients into the rice cooker.
~ Soak for about 15mins then press start button to cook
~ Make sure to stir well before cooking the rice.
~ Leave it warm in the rice cooker before serving.


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Sambal chilli is adapted from : http://nasilemaklover.blogspot.sg/2010/05/homemade-asian-basic-chili-paste-sambal.html
This recipe is very versatile as it can be use to make curry, fish etc etc as this is a basic one as no seasonings or shrimp paste is added before hand.

Sambal chilli recipe:

Ingredients A300g dried red chili (cut 1” length and cooked in hot water for 10mins, remove seeds)
175ml water

Ingredients B
2 onions
10 shallots
10 cloves of garlic
50ml water

300ml cooking oil or more

1. Blend ingredients A till fine or paste texture, and set aside.
2. Blend ingredients B till fine or paste texture, and set aside.
3. Heat wok (without oil) over low flame, add in chili mixture, stir fry for 15mins.
4. Add in cooking oil, continue stir fry for another 15mins (at this time, the mixture is quite heavy and hard to stir)
5. Add in onion mixture, continue stir fry for 45mins or till oil separated from chili (at this time, the mixture is light and easy to stir)
6. Cool down completely before store in clean air tight container. Store in fridge or freezer.

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There is another recipe which I like that is featured in Sunday times  dated 27 Sept 2009 using Lee Wee & Brothers' recipe for Nasi Lemak rice.

Ingredients:

70g fresh red chilli
1 large red onion
6 cloves garlic
3tbs cooking oil
80g ikan bilis ground to fine powder
8g salt
18g sugar

Method:
~ Blend the fresh red chillies , red onion and garlic to form a smooth paste
~ To a heated work, add cooking oil and stir fry the ground ikan bilis for about 2 mins till fragrant.
~ Add the ground chilli paste, salt and sugar and stir fry for 15 minutes.

Lastly serve with your fav ingredients you like on your nasi lemak.