May 9, 2010: Nasi Lemak

Cindy actually loved her breakfast on our last morn inward Melaka together with was excited when comment linking to her ain nasi lemak recipe. It didn't stimulate got us long afterward nosotros got dorsum for us to stimulate got a fissure at it. We took a few shortcuts - buying a jounce sambal rather than making our ain together with substituting about bok choy nosotros had inward the refrigerator for the to a greater extent than appropriate kangkung.

Even having reduced the complexity a little, this was pretty involved - you've got a saucepan alongside rice, a pan for the peanuts, a pan for the tempeh, a pan for the greens together with something to boil the eggs in. It'd live smart to create a few things (like the eggs together with the nuts) ahead of fourth dimension rather than messing upwardly the entire kitchen, but nosotros were likewise disorganised to create things the slowly way. Still, it's worth the examine - this gave us iii days or thence of amazing food. The kokosnoot rice provides a rich sweetness, which goes good alongside the kecap-manis flavoured tempeh together with the freshness of the cucumber. There's a lot of textural multifariousness alongside crispy tempeh, crunchy nuts together with the soft eggs, together with everything is brought together past times the salty together with hot sambal. (As an aside: if anyone knows a expert vegetarian sambal available inward Melbourne, allow us know - ours was a piddling likewise sweet.)

Next fourth dimension nosotros powerfulness examine to larn things a fighting to a greater extent than authentic, alongside homemade sambal together with the correct greens. Regardless, await to run across Nasi Lemak on our where's the best? listing the adjacent fourth dimension nosotros update it.


Nasi Lemak (via Confessions of a Food Nazi)

six eggs
400ml kokosnoot milk
1 1/2 cups chocolate-brown rice
ii cups water

200g peanut kernels
ii large bok choy, rinsed together with chopped into large chunks
1 tablespoon peanut oil
450 tempeh, cutting into modest strips
kecap manis
iv cups greens (e.g. bok choy)
soy sauce
vegie sambal, to taste
1/2 a cucumber, sliced

Hardboil together with tegument your eggs, together with laid upwardly them aside.

Add the kokosnoot milk, rice together with H2O to a saucepan together with convey to the boil, lower estrus together with cover, simmering until the rice is soft (half an lx minutes or so).

While the rice is cooking, toast the peanut kernels inward a dry out pan, beingness careful non to laissez passer on notice them.

Remove the nuts, add together the peanut fossil oil to the pan together with add together the tempeh, frying until it gets crisp. Add inward a few teaspoons of kecap manis (to taste) together with toss it through, coating the tempeh strips.

Set the tempeh aside together with seat the greens inward the frying pan (with to a greater extent than fossil oil if necessary) together with stir-fry alongside a few splashes of soy sauce (Cindy steered clear of adding sambal to the greens at this signal inward representative it all got likewise hot for her).

Assemble the dish past times placing a large dollop of kokosnoot rice inward the middle of your plate, together with surrounding it alongside all the other elements. Layer on a few tablespoons of sambal (to taste) together with smush things together a fighting for a sweet, salty together with spicy delight.