Nasi bakar or literrary translated as grilled (burned) rice is an Indonesian rice dish which is sounds impossible to do without any wrapper. Traditionally, nasi bakar usually wrapped in banana leaf before grilled over arang batok kelapa or coconut shell charcoal. The wrapped nasi bakar mixture is secured with lidi or coconut leaf wooden stick, then finished by grilling until the banana leaf is browned and blistered. Eversince the nasi bakar mixture is throughly cooked, grilling prior serving mainly to enhanced the smoke flavour and to heat up the nasi bakar. The charred and toasted rice layer underneath the banana leaf was the best part of nasi bakar, similiar to socarrat of my Paella alla Valenciana, Spanish (Valencian) Paella with Chicken, Rabbit, Snail and Vegetables.
Nasi bakar derived from nasi timbel, a Sundanese descent (West Java) simple hot steamed rice that wrapped in banana leaf. Nasi bakar got a nice scent of banana leaf and also smoky flavour due to the prior grilling. Nasi bakar usually lightly seasoned with garlic, red shallots and some kencur or sand ginger that traditionally mortarred in cobek or shaved stoneware from basalt stone. Nasi bakar loaded with dry seafoods, meats and also coconut milk to give a savoury hint into it. Common stuffing for nasi bakar is ikan teri or dried anchovies, telur bebek asin or salted duck egg, ikan asin or salted fish, juhi or dried squid, chuncky sauteed and seasoned chicken, beef, tempeh, tofu or mushrooms. Nasi bakar parcels usually opened just before serving and topped with sambal terasi or shrimp paste chilli sauce.
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Spiced Red Rice with Oyster Mushrooms Wrapped In Banana Leaf and then Grilled, Served with Sambal Terasi
Resep Nasi Bakar Beras Merah Isi Jamur (Grilled Banana Leaf Wrapped Spiced Red Rice with Mushroom):
Ingredients:
- 2 cups cooked red rice, read the package instruction to cook it (200 gr nasi beras merah matang)
- 1/5 cup coconut milk (50 ml santan encer )
- 1 cup fresh oyster mushrooms (100 gr jamur tiram segar)
- 1 spring onion, thinly slice (daun bawang)
- 2 salted eggs, diced (2 buah telur asin)
- 1/2 cup diced carrot (50 gr cincangan wortel)
- 1/2 cup meat floss (30 gr abon)
- 1 dry sausage, thinly sliced, can be replace with beef jerky or dendeng daging, thinly sliced
- 2 cayenne chilli pepper, thinly sliced (cabe merah)
- 1 large tomato, deseeded, diced (tomat)
- 1 tbsp olive oil for stir frying (minyak zaitun)
- salt and pepper to taste
- banana leaf for wrapping
- coconut leaf wooden stick (lidi) for securing the banana leaf parcell
Spice Paste (Bumbu Halus):
- 3 cloves garlic (bawang putih)
- 6 red shallots (bawang merah)
- 1 cm sand ginger (kencur)
- 1/4 tsp Homemade Garam Masala (bumbu kari bubuk)
Instruction:
- Heat up 1 tbsp olive oil in a wok pan, saute the spice paste until fragrance
- Add the sliced chilli ,oyster mushrooms and carrot, stir occationally
- Pour the coconut milk, bring to boil and season with salt and peper
- Add the cooked PUREGREEN organic red rice, stir occationally, lower the heat and cover the pan with lid until the liquid evaporated
- Add the salted egg, tomato, beef floss, dry sausage, and sping onion, mix it evenly, set aside
- Clean the banana leaf and exposed with flame to made it flexible and and workable, set aside
- Place a banana leaf with the shiny side up, Put 2/3 cup of red rice mixture in the middle of the leaf.
- Mold the red rice mixture, take the leaf edge closest to you and fold it over rice.
- Using both sets of fingers, tuck leaf edge under the rice and roll to enclose filling completely.
- Roll it as tightly as possible into a compact cylinder.
- With the seam-side down, smooth your fingers across the cylinder to gently flatten and fold both ends under to form a nice packet
- Secure both end with lidi or you can using staples for doing this, set aside
- Do this until all red rice mixture is wrapped in banana leaf
- Heat up the metal grill pan, grill the nasi bakar until the banana leaf is charred and browned
- Open the nasi bakar banana leaf parcell and served it with sambal terasi
TIPS:
- If you didn’t directly grilled the nasi bakar, you can steamed it first before grillling to make the inner part of nasi bakar is throughly heated
- If you had left over nasi bakar, wrap it in alumunium foil, it could last for about 3 days in the fridge, steamed it throughly before grilling and serving
- Nasi bakar parcell last for about 1 month in a freezer, thaw it completely and steamed it throughly before grilling and serving.
I love red rice, but only tried them steamed and in salads. This looks exotic and flavourful!
Wow, what a great looking dish! I’ve never had anything like this, and it looks incredibly tasty. Good stuff – thanks so much.
An it tastes heavenly delicious too..
U should try this…
Is it easy there to get banana leaf?
Coz it will give certain kind of smell when it’s grilled.. 🙂
Such a colorful dish!
Your food is looking so fantastic — food magazine worthy. 😀
This looks so delicious! Love the vibrant colors 🙂
looks yummy… this dish will be great for a picnic…
and good luck on the challenge, dedi ^_^
That’s another fabulous dish …Thanks 🙂
Wow…awesome Pak :D…makasih udah berpartisipasi di challenge IDFB…kerennn !..
ya ampun dedy, rasanya pasti rame ini.. disteam dulu baru dibakar.. hore udah bikin challengenya.. ku malah belom posting..
posting resepnya dong mbak, jgn mau ketinggalan, hehehe
This looks so good. I love rice dishes and I love that this has some beans and a kick and also a coconut base. Yum!
Yum, that looks so amazing. it’s been a while since I had nasi bakar, now I feel like I must make this ASAP 🙂
ur good chef
Penampilannya sudah mengintimidasi gitu. keliatan lejaat… :-9
The perfect complete meal for my taste. I love rice and loads of rice and definitely the bumbu is another killer.
Dedy, this recipe looks so intriguing – I love all the different components that it has. like the spice paste, the red rice, the banana leaf wrapper and, of course, the filling. This must be one incredible tasting dish! Thank for posting yet another amazing recipe! Always learn something new when I visit here.
Have a good week!
Yes, this dish is quite famous in indonesia 🙂
You definitely should try this recipe.. ^_^
Never heard of red rice…very intrigued by it. The dish sounds packed with flavors and so healthy and delicious. Nice post.
In Asia also have black rice, and its smell when cooked is even better than any other rice.. ^_^
aku suka nasi bakar 🙂 Ded, belakangan resepnya bikin pengen nyoba trusssss
Ciamik..as always…
Grilled banana leaves…? Love it! So exotic…together with that rice and mushrooms. Pleasure just to look at it! 🙂 ela
Great substitute for white jasmine rice! And definitely seems more flavorful than brown rice. Thank you for introducing this new ingredient 🙂
I love Indonesian food but I don’t think I’ve tried this! Thanks for sharing the recipe 😀
I wonder if I could do this with “riced” cauliflower… This is stunning, as always! Your pictures are truly amazing Dedy!
Yuppp, that’s sounds a great idea Lucas!!!
Wow what a great dish and I like the use of red rice! Very pretty as well 🙂
I have never had red rice…I need to try this dish…I love all kind of rice dish Dedy…
Thanks for the recipes and have a wonderful week ahead 😀
that looks like its packed with lots of flavour, never had tried red rice but brown a lot of times 😉
I love the wonderful fragrance of rice dishes wrapped in banana leaves, this looks fantastic Dedy! Great job 🙂
hummm….liat fotonya udah bisa kecium bau wangi nasi bakarnya. Aku juga nasi bakar tapi belum pernah cobain yang pake beras merah gini.
Ded, mau donk dikirimin samplenya, hahahaha
These look delicious and vibrant. Great recipe…
This looks so cool! Great presentation!
This dish is beautifully presented too! It looks divine!! yummm! 🙂
I love rice wrapped around with banana leaves! So flavorful and delicious!!
Looks awesome Dedy. One ingredient had me stumped; meat floss! I googled it – what a fascinating-looking ingredient. Love all your nutritional info about red rice.
Kayaknya enak banget nih… Kalau nggak makan telur, tanpa telur asin apakah masih enak? Atau bisa diganti dengan bahan lain? Salam kenal chef!
bisa aja mbak, intinya nasi bakar itu bs diisi apa aja yang kita mau, hehehe
What a beautiful and interesting dish, Dedy! I’d love to try it… I love bananas. In Brazil, we also eat them with rice (and black beans).
a delightful and tasty recipe, easy to make and more easy to eat, looks so good 🙂
wah enak sekalii jadi pengen nyoba nih ,apalagi kalo di + telur asin pasti enak ya 🙂 hehehe
Pake alat ini loh gan, agan bisa buat tepung beras sendiri 😀