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Coconut rice recipe (nasi lemak)

Created by Alvin Tan

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1/ 5 stars 7 Votes

Cuisine: Malaysian

A national dish of Malaysia.

Ingredients

3 cups plain long grain rice (rinsed twice and drained)
200ml coconut milk
200ml water
2 cm ginger, peeled and bruised
1 pandan leaf, washed, split and tied into a knot
¾ tsp salt

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Preparation

Rice cooker method
Place rice, coconut milk and water into a rice cooker. Add ginger, knotted pandan leaf and salt and cook until done.

Stove top method
Add ingredients to saucepan, and bring to a boil. Cover with a well-fitting lid and turn to a low heat until liquid is absorbed – about 15 minutes. Take off the heat and leave for a further 5 minutes without lifting the lid. Serve.

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Comments (7)

07 Aug 2011 05:45 AEST

Marnie

Caves Beach

Check the proportions

Garbage recipe, but Maeve still thought it was delicious!

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22 Jan 2011 08:01 AEST

Thornleigh

3 cups cooked, not raw

The 3 cups of rice is way too much, although that's exactly what they said on the TV show, too. It should be one cup of rice, to make 3 cups cooked rice. Usually it's about 1/1 coconut milk to water and 2/1 liquid to rice (by volume).

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17 Jan 2011 10:01 AEST

Genny

Canada

Rice Cooker issues

My rice cooker keeps turning off every 2 minutes because there is not enough steam being created to cook the rice properly. I keep having to add more and more water. Hopefully it doesn't turn out to be a pile of mush!

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05 Aug 2010 12:59 AEST

deborah

croydon park

Nasi Lemak incorrect name

we were in Langkawi for a holiday and Nasi Lemak for breakfast consisted of sambal brawn, rice, egg, fried anchovies or white bait , chicken in a curry type sauce and came with coconut rice.

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27 Sep 2009 10:00 AEST

kcc

thornlie

SOmething's missing in this receipe

something's missing in this receipe? the chilli paste to go with the rice. ??? you can't just eat rice by itself!!!

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07 Aug 2009 05:27 AEST

Polly

Burnside

Incorrect name

Nasi Lemak is a very popular Malaysian meal comprising at its most basic, coconut rice, hardboiled egg, sliced raw cucumber, toasted/fried peanuts, deep fried dried anchovies and sambal (a chili-based gravy made of fresh and dried red chilies, spices and shallots) at its most basic. This recipe should just be called "Coconut rice"

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15 May 2009 07:29 AEST

Joel Owen

kellyville

bad rice

This rice recipe is so out of whack. It was so dry it was completely inedible. it should be 1 cup rice to the remaining ingredients and not 3!

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