Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam
Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, chinese peranakan mixed herbs rice - nasi ulam. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam is something that I have loved my entire life.

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 particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chinese peranakan mixed herbs rice - nasi ulam using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam:
  1. Get 3 grams bowl of cooked white rice
  2. Take 1/2 cup grated coconut
  3. Make ready 4 stick lemon grass
  4. Take 2 stick torch ginger bud
  5. Get 1 clove ginger
  6. Make ready 100 grams dried shrimps
  7. Get 2 clove turmeric
  8. Take 3 turmeric leaves
  9. Take 20 peppermint leaves
  10. Make ready 4 kaffir leaves
  11. Make ready 20 grams black/white pepper
  12. Get 100 grams salted fish (Kurau/threadfin)
  13. Take 5 clove Shallots
  14. Make ready 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.

Steps to make Chinese Peranakan Mixed Herbs Rice - Nasi Ulam:
  1. cooked white rice to be cool down for an hour
  2. grated coconut to be fried in low heat without oil until slightly brown with minor aroma
  3. pound dried shrimps and pepper to sea sand size
  4. cut all other ingredients to millimeters size
  5. put rice in big bowl and mix with all the other ingredients
  6. add salted fish at the final stage to control saltiness of dish
  7. 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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