Friday, 20 April 2018

Rainbow Nasi Lemak (AIA Vitality Healthy Cookout Showdown Winning Dish)

Rainbow Nasi Lemak
What we need...

A. Coconut Rice
B. Sliced Cucumber
C. Air Fried Chicken Thigh
D. Sambal
E. Sambal Kangkung 
F. Fried Beaten Egg
G. Air Fried Peanuts and Anchovies

A. "The Coconut Rice Ingredients"
15-18 dried blue pea flowers
3 tbsp hot water
2 cups jasmine rice
200ml organic light coconut milk
3 pandan leaves (tie a knot)
3 sliced galangal
3 lemongrass (cut into 2 sections each)
2 shallot (lightly smashed)
4 Indonesian bay leaves (optional)
3/4 tbsp salt
1/2 tsp sugar

Instructions
1. Soak the dried blue pea flowers with hot water for 1-2 hours. The water should turn out bluish purple. Drain the water and set aside. 
2. In a small saucepan, bring the coconut milk to boil. Add salt and sugar to taste. Let it cool down before cooking the rice.
3. Cook the rice in the rice cooker with the cooked coconut milk and coloured water, you may want to top up some water till the water level is about 5mm above the rice.
4. Put the rest of the ingredients on the rice and drizzle 1/2 tbsp of organic light coconut oil 

B. Slice the cucumber in round shaped and set aside. 

C. The Fried Chicken Ingredients
4 chicken thigh meat

The Chicken Seasonings
5 shallot + 5 garlic (to be pounded)
1 tbsp curry powder
1 tsp turmeric powder
1 tsp coriander powder
2 tsp salt
Pepper
2 tbsp corn or tapioca starch

Instructions
1. Marinate the chicken thigh meat with all the seasonings for at least 4 hours.
2. Pre-heat the Air Fryer to 180 degrees.
3. Place the 4 chicken thighs into the bottom of the AirFryer cooking compartment. Cook for 15 minutes or until the chicken is cooked. Remove.

D. The Sambal Chilli Ingredients (to be blended)
15 dried chillies (soaked and cut into small pieces)
4 red chillies (cut into small pieces)
6 bird eye chillies 
8 shallots
6 garlic
1 thumbsize belacan 

Seasonings
100-150g palm sugar (gula melaka)
1 tbsp salt or to taste 
Add on 1 sliced onion

Instructions

1. Blend all the sambal chilli ingredients together except the sliced onion.
2. In a pan/wok, heat 1/4 cup of organic coconut oil (we need more oil as the chilli paste will absorb a lot of oil). 
3. Use low medium fire ans stir fry the sambal chilli till its thicken a little or till the colour change to dark red. Stir it constantly.
4. Add gula melaka and salt to taste.
5. Lastly add sliced onion and mix it for a couple of minutes.

E. The Sambal Kangkung

Ingredients
A bunch of kangkung, wash and cut into 3 sections
1/4 cup chilli sambal "C"

Instructions
1. Heat 1 tbsp of organic coconut oil and stir fry the kangkung with the chilli sambal. Dish up.

F. The Fried Beaten Egg Ingredients
4 eggs

Instructions
1. Heat 1 tbsp of coconut oil in a pan and use a round egg mould ring to cook the egg till the below is slightly brown
(Fry the egg one by one)

G. Use Air-fryer to roast the 1/2 Peanuts and 1/2 Anchovies till it browns or cooked.

To assemble The Stack of Rainbow Nasi Lemak 
Use a round cookie cutter to create the stack. 
First, compress the coconut rice on the most bottom. Second, a layer of sliced cucumber. Third, sambal kangkung. Fourth, the fried beaten egg. Fifth, the air fried chicken follow by a layer of sambal chillies. Last but not least, the roasted anchovies and peanuts.
Serve immediately and enjoy!

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