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Nasi Lemak- serve with cucumber, egg, sambal chili, peanut, ikan bilis...
Some nasi lemak also serve with beef redang, curry chicken, fry chicken & other dishes... Traditional nasi lemak always serve with cooked hard egg & sambal chili & packed in brown paper & banana leave Some traditional nasi lemak also come with salted fish & packed in banana leave
You always can choose the dishes which serve with your nasi lemak.

Nasi Lemak

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Nasi Lemak cooked in coconut milk, with pandan leaves and even ginger or a stalk of lemon grass. Traditionally, it’s comes as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (ikan bilis), roasted peanuts, hard boiled egg, and hot spicy sauce (sambal). Nasi lemak can also come with any other accompaniments such as chicken, cuttlefish, cockle, beef curry.

Nasi lemak traditionally is a breakfast dish, sold early in the morning at roadside stalls in Malaysia, where it is often sold packed in newspaper, brown paper or banana leaf. But nowadays, it's eaten any time. You can have Nasi Lemak during breakfast, lunch, dinner...... Any time of the day!

Recipe
Nasi Lemak Sambal Ikan Bilis
Ingredients:
  • 1 cup rice
  • 3 screw pine (pandan) leaves
  • salt to taste
  • 1 grated coconut
 Ingredients:
  • 1 small onion
  • 1/2 cup dried ikan bilis ( anchovies )
  • 1 clove garlic
  • 2 tbsp lime or lemon juice
  • 4 shallots
  • 8 dried chillies
  • Prawn paste ( belacan) ( Optional )
  • Salt and sugar to taste

How to cook:

Clean the rice and drain. Cook rice with coconut milk (add water if coconut milk is not enough), screw pine leaves, and salt. If desired, add in some sliced shallots and ginger. Serve rice with sliced hard-boiled eggs, cucumber, peanut and sambal ikan bilis.

How to make:

Fry the ikan bilis until crisp and put aside. Grind the prawn paste together with shallots, garlic, deseeded dried chillies. Slice the small onion into rings. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in a pan and fry the ground ingredients until fragrant. Add in the onion rings. Add lime or lemon juice, salt, sugar. Cook, stirring occasionally until the gravy thickens. Add in the ikan bilis and mix well. Serve with steaming hot Nasi Lemak.
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