Nasi Kerabu
by Will ChewA beautiful dish from the North East of Malaysia, Terengganu. The natural blue colour on the rice is from a type of flower known as butterfly pea which is added to the rice at the start of the cooking process.
Nasi Kerabu
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Category
Main
Servings
2
Prep Time
30 minutes
Cook Time
30 minutes
Author
Will Chew
Ingredients
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3 tablespoon Mak Tok's Signature Chilli Paste
-
1 tablespoon Mak Tok's Fire Chilli paste
40g Mini poppadoms
250ml Coconut milk
3 Large green chillies
2 cup Jasmine rice
2 pcs Kaffir lime leaves
4 stalk Lemongrass
1 teaspoon Butterfly pea flower extract / blue colouring
1 Medium onion (diced)
100g Canned tuna
50g Desiccated coconut
2 Salted duck eggs (hard boiled)
1 teaspoon Garlic powder
1 teaspoon Ginger powder
1/8 teaspoon Black pepper powder
50g White cabbage (finely sliced)
30g Green beans (sliced)
10g Coriander (roughly chopped)
3 tablespoon Sugar
30g Fresh bean sprout
10g Ginger (finely diced)
1 Egg
1/4 Lime
Salt to taste
Directions
Blue rice (Nasi biru)
- Wash and soak Jasmine rice for 15 minutes with 2 cups of water, 2 stalk of lemongrass, Kaffir lime leaves, a pinch of salt, and Butterfly Pea flower extract.
- Cook the rice and until done. Fluff and set aside.
Side salad (Ulaman)
- In a large mixing bowl, add white cabbage, green beans, beansprouts, coriander, ginger, sugar, and a tablespoon of a spoonful of toasted desiccated coconut.
- Mix well and season with salt to taste. Set aside.
Fish Floss (Serunding Ikan)
- Make the fish floss by adding all the remaining toasted desiccated coconut, tuna, red onions, and lemongrass to a pestle-and-mortar. Grind and pound all the ingredients together for at least 5-10 minutes.
- Tips: you can use a food processor for this step instead of pestle-and-mortar.
- Season with sugar and salt to taste.
- Heat up a wok and turn down the fire to low before adding in the fish floss. Gently fry the fish floss until dry (usually takes 10minutes)
- Set aside and let it cool.
Stuffed peppers (Solok Lada)
- Create an opening and remove all the seeds from the chillies.
- In a mixing bowl, add 2 tablespoon of the fish floss, garlic powder, ginger powder, black pepper powder, a tablespoon of coconut milk, and an egg. Mix well to create a mixture
- Stuff the peppers with the mixture and steam for 10 minutes (or 1 minutes 30 seconds with the lid on in the microwave oven).
- Set aside and allow to cool.
Coconut curry (Gulai Tumis).
- Heat up a saucepan on low and add Mak Tok’s Signature Chilli Paste and the remaining coconut milk.
- Season with a pinch of salt and set aside.
Tangy Chilli paste (Sambal Cuka).
- Mix Mak Tok’s Fire Chilli Paste with lime and set aside.
Nasi Kerabu
- Assemble the blue rice, side salad, fish floss, stuffed peppers, coconut curry, tangy chilli paste, salted duck egg, and some mini poppadoms in a large plate.
- Tuck in!
Recipe Note
Top tip: Serve with some homemade fried chicken!