Nasi serai is less known than nasi ayam or nasi lemak but it is one of the rice dishes that is very easy to prepare and delicious. This recipe is quite different from most lemongrass rice recipes because it uses lemongrass juice to get a stronger lemongrass flavor..
This dish is very suitable to be matched with shrimp or squid sauce. It is also important,also delicious if eaten with a thick curry or ayam masak merah or spicy tomato chicken.
If you want to change the taste of white rice, I recommend you try this lemongrass rice recipe.
Ingredients
4 basmati rice pot measuring cup
6 lemongrass stalks
3 strands of pandan leaves
1 cinnamon stick
3 cloves
3 cardamom seeds
3 sliced garlic cloves
5 small onion seeds sliced
1cm ginger sliced
2 tablespoons of Ghee
1 chicken stock cube
1 1/2 teaspoons of salt
Method
- Grandchild rice so that the water becomes clear and soak it for 20 minutes.
- Take 3 lemongrass stalk and cut along 4-5 cm each piece.
- Beat in a blender with 500m or 2 cup of water until smooth.
- Strain with a coarse strainer followed by a fine strainer to get the lemongrass water and set aside.
- Baki 3 lemongrass stalks are cut 2 so happy to be sauteed. Drizzle the lemongrass after cutting.
- Melt beef oil in a skillet and heat it.
- When the oil is hot, Add the cloves, cardamom and cinnamon.
- When it's fragrant, add the garlic, small shallots and lemongrass. Cook on medium heat so that the ingredients do not burn.
- When the stir -fry material already looks soft and starts to turn yellow, add pandan leaves.
- Add 250ml or 1 a cup of water when the sautéed ingredients become crispy.
- Add 1 chicken stock cube.
- When the chicken starch cubes are dissolved, pour lemongrass water and turn up the heat.
- When it boils, turn off the heat.
- Discard the water used to wash the rice and make sure the water is clear, if it's still murky, wash one more time.
- Combine the stir-fry ingredients that we prepared earlier.
- For 4 measuring cup of rice cooker, we need to add water up to the level 5 cup in a rice cooker.
- Add 1 1/2 teaspoon of salt or to taste.
- Stir one more time and cook as usual.
- When the rice is cooked and the ‘cook’ light’ turned off and the ‘keep warm’ lights’ It's on, leave the rice for 20 minutes more so that the rice absorbs steam and expands properly.
- Lemongrass rice is ready and can be decorated with soup leaves and fried onions.
[…] Another tip is that chillies and onions should be cooked until completely crisp. A common mistake is to introduce the chicken too early in the cooking process. The mint leaves, coriander and Chinese celery leaves also need to be fresh so that the aromas are still strong. Red -cooked chicken is matched with white rice only or with briyani rice, pilau rice, tomato rice or lemongrass rice. […]