What is our kerab?

Nasi Kerabu is a traditional Malaysian food that is known for its blue rice. In addition to rice, this filling also contains a fish that is a base of kerab or vegetable mixture. Other elements of typical NASI kerab are sweet and salty coconut sauce and ornament, which includes vegetables and various ingredients commonly used in cooking Southeast Asia.

NASI KERAB is blue because it has been cooked in a blue extract of dried flowers plant ternatea clitoria . These flowers, which are strikingly lively blue, are also used to dye rice in other Malaysian meals such as Pulut Tai Tai and Nonya Chang. In a typical recipe of our kerab, the ratio of 1 cup (237 ml) boiled rice to one medium fish is used. In a typical recipe, the fish is grilled and burgled before it fry together with the grated coconut and mixing and shallots. The resulting mixture has added sugar and salt to it. Sometimes dried fish are used instead of fresh products. Other ingredients include shallots,Dried chili and lemon grass. Milk is combined with these flavors and built on the stove to cook, adding salt and sugar to the sauce, as is the case.

The decoration usually consists of salad vegetables such as cucumber, along with beans. Traditional used Southeast Asia includes lime, fish sauce and herbs such as the leaves of Thai basil and Vietnamese coriander. Herbs and spices such as coriander, mint, ginger and turmeric are sometimes used as alternatives, depending on how western the recipe is. As with sauce, chili and lemon grass, they usually appear in decoration.

Usually, our kerabukerab is served on rice, along with some torn pieces of Vietnamese coriander. It is traditional to serve our keraba as a side dish to the main food. Many stalls in Malaysia sell food to passers -by.

There are many other Malaysian meals with our nasi astheir base. Two of the most famous examples are our goreng and our ulam. Nasi Ulam is, like Nasi Kerabu, herbal rice bowl and our goreng usually consist of fried rice, spices and proteins such as chicken, shrimp and eggs.