(Basic) Nasi Lemak (White Rice With Coconut Milk). How to Cook Coconut Milk Rice (Nasi Lemak) Nasi Lemak (Coconut Milk Rice) is a popular dish in Malaysia. It is usually served with an addictive spicy sambal, sliced cucumbers, deep-fried anchovies, fried peanuts and hard-boiled eggs. Easy Nasi Lemak (Singapore/Malaysia Coconut Milk Rice) with delicious homemade nasi lemak sambal.
A truly remarkable Nasi Lemak (Coconut Milk Rice) is not to be taken lightly. It constitutes of good quality rice cooked in rich and creamy coconut milk with screw pine leaves infused during the cooking process. This is key to create the best flavours and texture in the nasi lemak rice. You can cook (Basic) Nasi Lemak (White Rice With Coconut Milk) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of (Basic) Nasi Lemak (White Rice With Coconut Milk)
- You need 500 grams of - White rice.
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup of - Plain water.
- You need 1 cup of - Coconut milk.
- It's 1 tsp of - Grated ginger.
- It's 1 tsp of - Sugar.
- You need 1/3 tsp of - Salt.
- Prepare 5 Strands of - Pandan leaves.
- You need 1 tbsp of - Butter (Optional).
Hence, much effort is required to prepare this legendary dish. I've been getting a lot of request for what's know popularly now as coconut rice. This dish is just long grained white rice made with either coconut oil, coconut milk or coconut. This recipe gravitates towards the Chinese version of Nasi Lemak, and is a tad bit healthier as I used low-fat coconut milk instead of the full fat ones.
(Basic) Nasi Lemak (White Rice With Coconut Milk) instructions
- Wash and soak white rice in a bowl with some water for 10-15 minutes. Strain them out and place into a rice cooker.
- Add in all ingredients except the butter.
- Let them cook for about 3-5 minutes then add in the butter and stir well to mix all of them then let the automated tool to do the rest.
- Usually the rice would be cooked for 15-20 minutes but no worries when cooking them with a rice cooker. However, once the rice cooker indicate its done, turn the rice cooker off after 5 minutes so the bottom wont burn.
- Serve while hot with some Red Hot & Spicy Condiment (May try my own RH&Spicy Condiment recipe - Can be found in my profile) EnJoY...!.
- Can be served during dinner or on any occasion.
- Tips: Usually served with slices of cucumber to cool down the spicy feeling.. ;D.
- Tips: Serving ratio = 1 Cup Rice : 1 TBSP Condiment.
My husband loves his Nasi Lemak but can be very picky about the texture of the rice, and fried egg. Nasi lemak are traditionally wrapped in banana leaves, served in Malaysia. Nasi lemak is a Malay cuisine dish consisting of fragrant rice cooked in coconut milk and pandan leaf. It is commonly found in Malaysia, where it is considered the national dish; it is also the native dish in neighbouring areas with significant Malay populations such as Singapore; Brunei, and Southern Thailand. Nasi Lemak rice which is the recipe today, is simple enough to make, all you do is replace your usual water with coconut milk, fresh if you can get it, canned, otherwise.