American Style Nasi Lemak (Coconut Rice)

Nasi Lemak is the most popular dish in Malaysia. There are many side dishes such as peanuts, onion, anchovies, cucumber and sometimes squid and shrimps for a luxury bites! Tonight i had my American version of nasi lemak for my hubby where he said the display looks like restaurant dish and the taste is amazing. However, we do not have chili sambal here so i have it replaced with caramelized onion with spicy thai sauce to have the gravy. If you are in western countries and i guess this is a good choice for you to stop craving towards nasi lemak.

Ingredients:

Rice * 2 cups

Thick coconut milk * 65ml

Water * 1.5 cups

Ginger * 2 slices

Garlic * 3 cloves

Salt * 1 tsp

*** Mix the above ingredients in the rice cooker and this is the way to cook the fragrance nasi lemak (you can add in the fresh pandan leaf – tie it in a knot, to cook together with the rice) due to i do not have pandan leaf here in Florida, this is so hard to find!! so i skip this ingredient from my rice.

Chicken (Drumstick) * 3 pcs

*** Marinated chicken in the seasoning for 8 hours

Turmeric powder * 3 tbsp

light soy sauce * 3 tbsp

Black pepper * little bit

Parsley herbs * little bit

cilantro Herbs * little bit

Side dishes ingredients:

Anchovies * 30g

Cucumber * 100g (Slice it)

Purple onion * 1 pc (slice it)

Chili * 1 pc (dice it)

Dried Chili Flakes * little bit

Water * 3 tbsp

Thai Sweet Chili Sauce * 2 tbsp

Egg * 1 pc (hard boiled egg – Boil it for 8 minutes)

How to cook:

Heat up the wok with little bit cooking oil and start frying the anchovies till golden color and crispy
Heat up the wok with little bit of cooking oil and pan fry the chili & onion until soft. Add in the Thai Sweet chili sauce and dried chili flakes. Add the water and boil it until thick gravy
Pre-heat oven at 350c for 10 minutes, choose the mode ” bake” and insert the chicken drumstick to cook for 30 minutes
Start combining all the side dishes into the big plate as per photo.
Decorate the rice with fresh mint herbs on top and Start MAKAN!!