Nasi bakar (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 banana
leaf package is opened upon consumption. It is a relatively newly developed Indonesian
dish around early 2000s, probably derived from “nasi timbel” rice
wrapped in banana leaf.
There are
many variants of nasi bakar according to its ingredients, such as fried
chicken, empal gepuk (fried beef), anchovy, peda fish, milkfish,salted
fish, shrimp, mushroom, tempe, tofu, salted duck egg etc.
The following
recipe is chicken burned rice recipe.
Ingredient:
- Rice 500
grams. Rinse and drain.
• Coconut
milk 600 milliliters.
• salam
leaves of 3 pieces.
• 2 stalks
of Lemongrass.
• Red onions
50 grams. Slice as thin as possible.
• 1/2
tablespoons Salt.
• 1
tablespoon broth powder.
• Cooking Oil
• Several
pieces of banana leaves (as needed) to wrap rice.
Additional Ingredient :
• 200 grams
of chicken meat. Clean and cut similar and the size of dice.
• Anchovy 100
grams. Washed and fry until cooked. Drain.
• 2 green
chilli. Slice oblique and thinly.
• 2 large
red chilli. Slice oblique and thinly.
• 3 seed garlic. Cut thin.
• 1
tablespoon broth powder.
• 1
tablespoon sugar
• 1
tablespoon salt
• Coocing oil
for frying all the ingredients as much as 5 tablespoons
How to Cook:
- First, heat the cooking oil then vapour the onion slices until fragrant. After that, put the coconut milk, broth powder, salt, lemongrass, and salam leaves. After boiling, put the rice and then stirring until cooked. Then lift rice, and steamed for about 25 minutes. Lift and store in a separate container.
- For the additional ingredient, heat the cook oil then pouring the onion. After its fragrant, pour the red chilli, green chilli. Stirring constantly until wither. After that, pour the chicken stir until the meat changes color. And then add a glass of water and broth powder. Stir until dry. And then pouring the other materials such as anchovy, garlic, red chilli, green chilli. Stirring constantly until wither. The last, finish it with salt and sugar. Stir and lift. Keep it in another plate or bowl.
- The next step is the process of wrapping the rice. First take a piece of banana leaves that have wilted. Then enter the rice. Add put the additional ingredient to taste. After that, wrap lengthwise like a rice cake. Close both ends with a pin stick. Then burn the rice on the furnace until fragrant smell. Once cooked, remove from heat and serve.