Coconut Rice with Chicken Curry
and Prawn in Chili Gravy - Nasi Lemak
Cooking time 40 minutes Serve 3

Coconut rice with chicken, anchovies, peanuts, prawn in chili gravy, egg and cucumber. It is a balanced meal. Malaysians take this for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even super. It is called Nasi lemak

 

Coconut rice with chicken rice
and prawn in chili gravy
(A) Ingredients for coconut rice

• 2 cups rice
• 1/2 cup thick coconut milk from 1/2 coconut
• 1 cup thin coconut milk from the remaining coconut
• 3 screw-pine leaves
• 1 tbsp mashed ginger, fried
• 5 g anise, cumin seeds

(B) Garnishing

• 1 cucumber, sliced
• 1 tomato, sliced
• 200 g fried anchovies
• 200 g roasted peanuts
• 2 chilies, sliced
• 2 hardboiled eggs, sliced
• 2 banana leaves as base

Method

1. Cook rice in a rice cooker, add anise, cumin seeds,
    fried ginger, screw-pine leaves, salt, and
   thin coconut milk to the level 1 1/2 cm above the rice.
2. Let boil and cook. Just before drying, add
   thick coconut milk and stir to mix.
3. Let stand for another 15 minutes,
   till rice is fully cooked and dry.
4. Serve the rice on banana leaves and add garnishing.
5. Serve together with 
   • chicken curry  
   • prawn in chili gravy

sssSSH....Grandma said:  Adding the thick coconut milk earlier would change the authentic aroma of the rice, giving an undesirable coconut oil smell.