Recipe: Appetizing Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice)

Recipe: Appetizing Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice) Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice). Great recipe for Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice). Nasi Bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaves secured with lidi semat (here I used toothpicks) and grilled upon charcoal fire. The burned banana leaves produced a unique aroma.

The burned banana leaves produced a unique aroma.

Here is how you cook it.

Nasi bakar (Indonesian for "burned or grilled rice") refer to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaf secured with lidi semat (small needle made of central rib of coconut leaf) and later grilled upon charcoal fire.

You can cook Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice) using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice)

1. You need 4-5 sheets of banana leaves.

2. You need 2 of plates white rice.

3. It’s of For the tuna sauce:.

4. It’s 1 tbs of vegetable oil.

5. You need 1 can of tuna, drained (I used tuna in water).

6. You need 6 cloves of shallots, finely sliced.

7. It’s 2 of lemongrass, cut the white part, finely sliced.

8. It’s to taste of salt and sugar.

9. You need of For ground spices:.

10. It’s 2 cloves of garlic.

11. It’s 3 cloves of shallots.

12. It’s 6 of red chili peppers (jalapeño or serrano).

13. Prepare 2 of birds eye chili peppers (optional).

The burned banana leaf produced a unique aroma upon the rice.

The banana leaf package is opened upon consumption.

Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice) Nasi Bakar refers to steamed rice seasoned with spices and ingredients and wrapped in banana leaves secured with lidi semat (here I used toothpicks) and grilled upon charcoal fire.

Today i feel like to make "Nasi Bakar" with a chicken sambal matah.

Nasi Bakar Sambal Tuna (Spicy Tuna Grilled Rice) instructions

1. Heat vegetable oil over medium-high heat. Sauté shallots and lemongrass until fragrant. Add ground spices. Cook until ground spices change color..

2. Add tuna. Keep stirring until all the ingredients mix well. Remove from the heat. Set aside..

3. Prepare 2 sheets banana leaves. Spread 1 plate of white rice out in an even layer on top of the banana leaves. Place 1/2 tuna sauce mixture in the center of white rice. Add basil leaves to taste. Fold banana leaves over to encase tuna sauce completely in rice, and secure each end with a toothpick. Do the same thing one more time with the rest of the rice..

4. Heat the grill pan over medium high-heat. Place banana leaves wraps on the grill and grill until banana leaves browned and charred 10-15 minutes each side..

5. Serve warm with tomato and cucumber slices! 😋.

Nasi bakar is an Indonesian type of rice which is wrapped with banana leaf and filled with different type of filling ( totally up to you ), some people make it with sambal ijo and chicken or tuna with sambal matah, This time i choose chicken sambal matah as a filling, sambal matah is a traditional "sambal/chili.

Charcoal grilled chicken rice with Sambal gravy.

Nasi timbel later evolved to nasi bakar.

Nasi pecel is white rice served with pecel (cooked vegetables and peanut sauce).

It is originally come from. 'Nasi Goreng' aka fried rice is the most popular Indonesian national dish.