Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese peranakan mixed herbs rice - nasi ulam. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
The use of raw herbs mixed into rice is unknown in the original Hokkien cuisine from which many Baba Nyonyas derive from. It has more in common with the Malay Nasi Kerabu (Kelantan Herb Rice) which the early Chinese settlers along the Northern Malay Peninsula may have come into contact with. Nasi Ulam - a Nyonya Herbed Rice packed with fish flakes, kerisik, and aromatic herbs.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have chinese peranakan mixed herbs rice - nasi ulam using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam:
- Make ready 3 grams bowl of cooked white rice
- Prepare 1/2 cup grated coconut
- Prepare 4 stick lemon grass
- Make ready 2 stick torch ginger bud
- Prepare 1 clove ginger
- Get 100 grams dried shrimps
- Make ready 2 clove turmeric
- Get 3 turmeric leaves
- Make ready 20 peppermint leaves
- Make ready 4 kaffir leaves
- Make ready 20 grams black/white pepper
- Prepare 100 grams salted fish (Kurau/threadfin)
- Take 5 clove Shallots
- Take 10 cashew leaf shoots
Nasi means rice in Malay while ulam means the assortment of herbs served during meal. Nasi ulam nyonya is the herbs are sliced or chopped and mixed with rice and other ingredients. After getting all the herbs / ulam and ingredients that I need from Chow Kit Wet Market I am ready to cook. Herb Rice (Nasi Ulam) is an aromatic steamed rice dish flavoured with Asian herbs.
Instructions to make Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam:
- cooked white rice to be cool down for an hour
- grated coconut to be fried in low heat without oil until slightly brown with minor aroma
- pound dried shrimps and pepper to sea sand size
- cut all other ingredients to millimeters size
- put rice in big bowl and mix with all the other ingredients
- add salted fish at the final stage to control saltiness of dish
- for vegetarians replace fish and shrimp with salted branches and sea salt
Take steamed rice to whole new level with this Malay recipe. Add all the prepared ingredients in a large bowl together with the rice and mix well with a wooden spoon. Add salt and sugar to taste and serve. This nasi ulam recipe comes from my friend James Oseland's cookbook, Cradle of Flavor. Use a spatula, spoon, or your hands to mix the seasonings.
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