🍲 Coconut Rice (Nasi Lemak)

Malaysian · 5 ingredients · 4 steps

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Coconut Rice (Nasi Lemak)
Coconut Rice (Nasi Lemak) — photograph by Mw12310, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0, from Wikimedia.
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This recipe states no serving size, so the quantities are left exactly as written.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups (1450 ml) basmati rice
  • 7 cups (1680 ml) coconut milk
  • Salt
  • 1–2 pandan leaves tied in a knot (optional)
  • of fresh ginger root (optional)

Method

  1. Rinse the rice and set it aside.
  2. Meanwhile put the coconut milk on the stove, and add the salt.
  3. Add the rice, pandan leaves, and ginger. Let it simmer until the coconut milk evaporates.
  4. Cover it with lid and let it sit for about 15 minutes until it is well cooked.
Where this came from. Adapted from Coconut Rice (Nasi Lemak) in the Wikibooks Cookbook, written by its contributors and published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page changes the layout and nothing else: the ingredients, the quantities and the steps are the source's. If you improve on it, the Cookbook welcomes edits.

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