Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, nasi kunyit (turmeric glutinous rice). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Nasi Kunyit is glutinous rice cooked in coconut milk and turmeric. This celebratory dish is usually served with curries during weddings and special occasions by the Malay community in Malaysia. The color yellow signifies good fortune, wealth, and royalty.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have nasi kunyit (turmeric glutinous rice) using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Nasi Kunyit (Turmeric Glutinous Rice):
- Get 1 kg Glutinous rice
- Get 1 tbsp Turmeric powder
- Get 1/2 medium Lime (juice)
- Take 4 clove Garlic (minced)
- Make ready 350 ml Coconut milk
- Get 4 tbsp Sugar
- Make ready 2 stick Cinnamon
- Make ready 1 clove Star anis
Note that Nasi Kunyit or turmeric rice can lead you to Malay recipes or Indonesian recipes that used normal rice and used for big feast or kenduri such as marriage ceremony. Yellow is a noble colour for the Malay community especially royal families and the yellow rice is interpreted as an auspicious and noble rice reserved for big occasions For the Nasi Kunyit. Place a muslin cloth inside the steamer and evenly spread the soaked rice onto the cloth. To cool down the rice, use your finger or a spoon to make holes in the rice.
Steps to make Nasi Kunyit (Turmeric Glutinous Rice):
- Soak the glutinous rice + turmeric powder + lime juice for at least 8 hours.
- Strain the glutinous rice
- Prepare the steam cooker. Put 1 stick cinnamon + star anis in the water.
- Put another 1 stick cinnamon together with the glutinous rice
- Steam the glutinous rice around 20 minutes until the rice cooked
- In the meantime boil the coconut milk + sugar + garlic
- Add 3/4 of coconut milk to the cooked rice. Mix it well. The taste supposed to be sweet. If its not sweet enough add another sugar in coconut milk and pour all coconut milk and mix it.
- Shape it on the plate while its warm
The glutinous rice is then steamed over boiling water to cook it. Nasi Kunyit is perfect with a curry dish such as Beef Rendang. I served it with my Babi Assam a couple of days ago and it was equally good. Nasi kunyit (or turmeric rice in Malay) is a significant dish for the Peranakan/Nyonyas, given out as gift together with the likes of red eggs and ang ku kueh (red rice cakes with sweet filling in the shape of tortoise) to friends and relatives when a baby turn's one month's old. Wash and drain the glutinous rice.
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