Nasi Lemak Research Paper

Nasi lemak - Coconut rice in English - is a Malaysia traditional dish that is loved by the Malaysian but also could be found in Singapore, Indonesian and Brunei. People usually have Nasi Lemak in the morning as a full course breakfast meal, but since it is so famous among Malaysian, Nasi Lemak has become the national dish for lunch and dinner too. You can easily find Nasi Lemak literally anywhere in Malaysia such as at stalls on the roadside, in five-star hotel restaurants, in mamak stalls, night market and even at the local convenient stores.

The name Nasi Lemak (Coconut rice) is given because it uses coconut milk in the process of cooking the rice. Usually people will put some pandan leaf in it to give it some fragrant to the rice that make it smells more appealing and more appetizing. It is cooked with some variation such as in rice cooker or steamed on the stove.

The price of the dish also varies based on the place you buy it and depends on the way it is served. It could range as cheap as $0.50 at the roadside stalls to as expensive as $30.00 in a five star hotels. The taste also varies based on the person who cook it because some people prefer to add a lot of coconut milk into it and some put less. Some put slices of onions into it and some put ginger to give another dimension of taste

Ingredients that are needed to prepare for the fragrant rice are 4 cup of rice, 5 shallots, 3 cloves of garlic, 1 inch of ginger, 3 cinnamon sticks, 4 cup of water, 1 cup of coconut milk, 2 pandan leaves, 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and table spoon of salt. Then the ingredient for the sambal are 1 large onion, 3 shallots, 1 clove of garlic, 4 tablespoons of chili paste, a little tamarind, 1 inch of ginger, 2 pandan leaves, sugar, salt and oil for frying. When you have prepared all this ingredient and you are one step closer on preparing your own Nasi