環球之旅:馬來美食——椰漿飯(Nasi Lemak)

椰漿飯（Nasi Lemak）

Nasi Lemak is a popular Malay dish made of rice cooked in coconut milk.
It is normally eaten with hot chilli sauce.

椰漿飯是馬來人最普遍的食品，雖然在每個新加坡的大排檔都可以找得到，但只有馬來人做的纔是最好味、最正宗的。

With roots in Malay culture, its name is a Malay word that literally means 'rice in cream'. The name is derived from the cooking process whereby rice is soaked in coconut cream and then the mixture steamed. Sometimes knotted screwpine (pandan) leaves are thrown into the rice while steaming to give it more fragrance. Spices such as ginger (common in Malay cuisine) and occasionally herbs like lemon grass may be added for additional fragrance.

Traditionally, this comes as a platter with cucumber slices, small dried anchovies (ikan bilis), roasted peanuts, stir fried water convolvulus, hard boiled egg, pickled vegetables (achar) and hot spicy sauce (sambal). Nasi lemak can also come with any other accompaniments such as chicken, cuttlefish, cockle, beef curry (beef stewed in coconut milk and spices) or paru (beef lungs). Traditionally most of these accompaniments are spicy in nature.
Nasi Lemak is widely eaten in Malaysia, even as a dish served in Malaysian schools. Nasi lemak is a breakfast dish, sold early in the morning at roadside stalls in Malaysia, where it is often sold packed in newspaper, brown paper or banana leaf. However, there are restaurants which serve it on a plate as noon or evening meals, making it possible for the dish to be treated as a delicacy. Nasi lemak panas which means hot nasi lemak is another name given to nasi lemak served with hot cooked rice.

This is Nasi Lemak (Coconut rice). You can see briefly what is inside.

椰漿飯的材料： Ingredients for Nasi Lemak:
米 Rice
椰漿 Coconut milk
香蘭葉 Pandan leaf
雞腿 Chicken leg
雞蛋 Eggs
蠔 Oyster/ Mussel
蝦 Prawn
江魚仔 Anchovy
花生 Peanuts
黃瓜 Cucumbers
蒜 Garlic
大洋蔥和小紅洋蔥 Onions and Shallot
馬來蝦膏粉 Belacan
辣椒幹 Dried Chilli
黃姜粉 Turmeric Powder
麪粉 Flour
The rice is cooked like normal just that not with water, but with coconut milk.

Different versions
Nasi Lemak comes in different versions if prepared by different chefs. Hotels have nasi lemak on their menu with elaborate dishes, such as beef rendang and the addition of other seafood, while humble roadside stalls sell them ready packed, known as "Nasi Lemak Bungkus", meaning "Wrapped Nasi Lemak", with minimal additions that costs between Ringgit Malaysia 1 to 7 per pack. There are Malaysian/Singaporean Chinese and Malaysian/Singaporean Indians versions.