Balding head :((
To prepare the ingredients for the sambal, we need to clean the prawns. Try to cook together with the prawn head to enhance the sweetness from the juice (but u dun have to eat the head). Chop some garlic and onions. Boil about 6 stalks of dried chilli. This is to soften it. Then blend the chilli together with 4 cloves of garlic and half a tomato.
Dried Chilli
To cook it, heat about 6 tablespoon of oil in a wok. Then add the sliced onions and garlics. Once the aroma has emerged, put in the blended items. Stir it on medium flame.
Tamarind Paste
Walla!! Done..
Nasi in english is Rice, and Lemak with direct translation is Fat. You will probaby get fat fast eating this dish a lot, though it taste really really good.
The main item is the Rice which is cooked in coconut juice. Together with it, I add garlic, ginger, salt, onion, coconut juice, a bit of water and pandan leaves. Then pandan leave gives nutty, botanical fragrance which enhances the flavor of many South East Asian dish.
Onion
Pandan Leaf
Garlic
Then the rice is normally eaten with some sort of sambal. Sambal means chilli based gravy. For this time, I cooked sambal udang or prawn sambal. It is also eaten with sambal ikan bilis ( anchovies sambal). Sambal ikan bilis is more popular back home as it is cheaper than prawns.
To prepare the ingredients for the sambal, we need to clean the prawns. Try to cook together with the prawn head to enhance the sweetness from the juice (but u dun have to eat the head). Chop some garlic and onions. Boil about 6 stalks of dried chilli. This is to soften it. Then blend the chilli together with 4 cloves of garlic and half a tomato.
Dried Chilli
To cook it, heat about 6 tablespoon of oil in a wok. Then add the sliced onions and garlics. Once the aroma has emerged, put in the blended items. Stir it on medium flame.
Then add 2 tablespoon of fish sauce, 2 tablespoon of oyster sauce, 1cm of belacan ( malaysian cooking item made of dried shrimps, and very smelly but taste damn good). Stir it again.
Tamarind Paste
Add the prawns and stir it. Once the prawns changed colour, add tamarind juice, 3 tablespoon of sugar and some salt.
Walla!! Done..
Then the rice is served with the sambal udang and also other condiments like boiled or sunny side up egg, sliced cucumber. fried peanuts and fried achovies (ikan bilis).
Nasi Lemak with sambal udang and fried fish.
WARNING:
This dish after you eat will make you immediate want to sleep.
1 comment:
come sabah n cook.. hahahaha.. we eat at sutera harbour la.. tapi kenapa u ppl come during my exam time.. cannot spend too much time wit u guys d.. :(
p/s: still glad u guys comin..
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