OPEN for ingredients! This is Nasi Lemak, made super pretty with all-natural butterfly blue pea food colouring. Nasi Lemak or Coconut Rice is a favourite dish here in Singapore and Malaysia and is always served with some crunchy fried dried anchovies and peanuts and a delicious, spicy sweet sambal.
Of course, the blue pea food colouring is optional – it doesn’t actually add taste. Omit for an equally yummy, albeit boring :p, plate of Nasi Lemak.
Ingredients:
Nasi Lemak:
- 2 Cups Jasmine Rice
- 2 cups Water
- 1/2 cup Coconut Cream
- 1 tsp Minced Ginger
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 3-4 Pandan Leaves, knotted (optional)
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Blue Food Colouring (optional):
- 1-2 tbsps Butterfly Blue Pea Flowers
- 1/4 cup Warm Water
Fried Ikan Bilis and Peanuts:
- 200g Peanuts
- 100g Dried Anchovies (Ikan Bilis)
Sambal:
- Blend together:
- 50g Dried Chillies, soaked in hot water
- 50g or 1 large Red Onion
- 30g or 5 cloves Garlic
- 30g or 1 tbsp Ginger
- 2 stalks Lemongrass, inner core
- 20g or 1 tbsp Belachan, toasted
- 2 tbsps of Ikan Bilis, fried
- 1/4 cup Oil to blend
- 1 tbsp Tamarind Paste, diluted in water to form a liquid
- 50g Coconut Palm Sugar
- 1 tsp Salt, or to taste
