
Healthy Nasi Lemak
Level
moderate
Cooking
20 min
Preparation
10 min
Ingredients
Servings
1
Brown Rice or Basmati Rice | 1 cup |
Dried Red Chillies soaked | 30 g |
Red Chilli | 1 |
Red Onion chopped | 1⁄2 |
Garlic | 5 cloves |
Asam Jawa | 2 tbsp |
Brown Sugar | 2 tsp |
Raw Peanuts | 1 |
Ikan Bilis | 1⁄4 cup |
Cucumber sliced | 1⁄4 |
Egg boiled and halved | 1 |
Ginger thinly sliced | 1 piece |
Pandan Leaf | 1 |
Virgin Coconut Oil | 1 tbsp |
Salt to taste | |
Water | 2 cups |
How to cook
Cook rice
- To cook the brown rice, add water, ginger and pandan leaf.
- When the brown rice is cooked, toss with a bit of virgin coconut oil to give it the coconut flavor.
Prepare chilli mixture
- To prepare tamarind liquid, add 2 tsp tamarind pulp soaked in 2 tbsp of warm water for the juice. Discard the seeds.
- In the blender, blend the dried chillies, red chilli, red onion, and garlic until it forms a paste.
- In a pan, heat up some oil and fry the chilli paste until the oil begins to separate.
- Add the tamarind liquid, brown sugar and continue cooking for 15 minutes until the mixture turns dark red.
- Add salt to taste if necessary.
Cook ikan bilis & peanuts
- Microwave or dry fry the ikan bilis till crisp.
- Dry fry the peanuts in a pan until lightly browned.
Assemble & serve
- To serve, place brown rice, ikan bilis, peanuts, egg and the sambal sauce on a plate. Garnish with cucumber.
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