Coconut Rice / Nasi Lemak. A nasi lemak will not be authentic without the leaves and coconut milk. The other main ingredient of nasi lemak is sambal. Sambal is the soul of the dish; it brings together all the various toppings and complete the iconic dish.

Delicious Malaysian coconut rice, served with anchovy hot chile sauce, fried anchovies, fried peanut, sliced cucumber or tomato and hard-boiled egg. wow very very delicious i eat nasi lemak(fat rice) everyday the most popular one is nasi lemak antarabangsa in kg baru kl malaysia come people visit. Coconut rice is a dish prepared by soaking white rice in coconut milk or cooking it with coconut flakes. Combine stock, coconut milk, pandan leaves, garlic powder and salt in a saucepan. You can cook Coconut Rice / Nasi Lemak using 6 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Coconut Rice / Nasi Lemak

It's of coconut milk rice.
Prepare 2 cup of rice.
You need 1 cup of water.
Prepare 1 cup of coconut milk.
It's 2 of pandan leaf / screwpine leaf.
You need 1/2 tsp of each of salt.

In the meantime dry fry dessicated coconut with the spices until lightly browned. I usually cook the rice with the stock in a rice cooker but you can cook it in the same saucepan (covered). This rich Malay coconut rice is a breakfast favorite in Malaysia. To learn how to tie a lemongrass knot, see our video.

Coconut Rice / Nasi Lemak step by step

Wash the rice grain then put all ingredients and cooked rice as usual in rice cooker.

My mum used to have a stall selling nasi lemak with anchovy sambal and long beans in a curry sauce. Nasi lemak literally means 'rice' and 'fat'. However, the 'fat' refers to the creaminess of the coconut milk which is used in cooking the rice. Nasi lemak is rice cooked with coconut milk, served with spicy anchovies sambal (or sambal of your choice), spiced fried chicken, hard boiled eggs, slices of cucumber and peanuts. It's a favourite Malaysian comfort food meal.