Nasi Lemak (Cheat Version)

Nasi Lemak is an aromatic rice dish usually accompanied with an array of side dishes such as deep fried chicken wings/fish, eggs, fried anchovies, peanuts and otah plus sambal chilli which is a sweet and spicy chilli paste.

The rice, is cooked in coconut milk diluted with water and some pandan leaves to give it a most fragrant aroma. It seems like there is a lot of food preparation involved if you want to have home made nasi lemak, look at what I have prepared for our nasi lemak dinner. Fried chicken wings, hard boiled eggs, achar (pickled vegetables in spicy peanut sauce) and sliced cucumbers.

Will you believe it when I tell you that I didn't do much for this dinner? :) Fried chicken wings were purchased from our favourite breakfast beehoon coffeeshop stall, the delicious achar was also bought. I simply cooked the rice, hard boiled the eggs and sliced a cucumber. Delicious dinner in a jiffy, with my cheat version! :p

You can do it too, with your favourite side dishes to go with the rice. Chicken curry will be a wonderful complement to the rice.

The recipe today is to share with you how I make the rice.

Nasi Lemak
(Serve 4)

Ingredients:

2 cups rice (washed and drained)
1 cup water
1 cup coconut milk
2-3 pandan leaves (washed and knotted)
1/2 teaspoon of salt

Method:

1. Place washed rice in the rice cooker pot.
2. Add in water, coconut milk, and salt. Mix well.
3. Place knotted pandan leaves with the rest of the ingredients and set the rice cooker to Cook function.
4. When rice is cooked, remove pandan leaves and stir rice well to fluff it up.
5. Serve rice warm, with your choice of side dishes.

Enjoy!