Lai Yee's Kitchen - Mel's Nasi Kerabu Ikan :
I love Nasi Kerabu for the refreshing green and all those salted flavours together. It is basically a rice salad. It is quite a messy dish but super appetizing. It comes from Kelantan. Basically, what you're eating is a very healthy herb and rice meal with the addition of grilled chicken or fish. Nasi Kerabu is made up of a few components, each prepared separately and assembled on a plate right before serving. There is the blue rice, a fried fish sambal, a herb salad and assorted accompaniments such as salted egg, fish crackers and winged bean. The fish sambal is made up of deep fried cencaru fish that has been deboned and flaked, crispy Geragau shrimp and toasty grated coconut, all bound together by a spicy sambal mix.
Ingredients for 10 pax:
* Kerabu Rice:
. 4 cups rice
. 18g dried blue pea flower
. 2.5 litres hot water
. 3 stalk lemongrass
. 5 kaffir leaves
. 50g crushed ginger
*Cencaru Fish Sambal :
. 2 cencaru fish
. Oil for deep fry
*Rempah:
. 3 tbsp oil
. 1 big onion
. 1 whole garlic
. 1 tbsp toasted belacan
. 1 lemongrass
. 100g toasted grated coconut (roughly pounded)
. 8 tbsp dried fried crispy Geragau shrimp (roughly pounded)
. 1tbsp sugar
. 1 tsp salt
* Sambal:
. 10 presoaked dried chilies
. 1 whole garlic
. 1 whole Onion
. 2 tbsp Belacan
. 3-5 tbsp sugar
. oil
. 1cup Tamarind juice
* Accompaniments:
. 5 cups fresh bean sprouts
. 6 stalks thinly sliced laksa leaves
. 2 stalks thinly sliced torch ginger flower
. 5 stalks thinly sliced lemongrass
. 2 finely sliced turmeric leaves
. 10 pcs four angle beans (thinly sliced)
. 1 shredded cucumber
. 5 Salted Duck Egg (I made my own, for recipe, check my ICTV video)
. Some Fish crackers
. 2 tbsp Sambal belacan
. sugar and salt to taste
You can basically take any herbs from your own garden to add on to create your own version. Once you are ready to get started on your plate of Nasi Kerabu, mix everything together so you can taste the layers of flavours and contrasting textures in each bite. Sedap!!
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