Nasi kerabu

Malaysia · Southeast Asia

Plate of blue rice with fried chicken, herbs, crackers, salted egg, sauce, and vegetables.
Nasi kerabu

Che Nom’s version colours its rice blue with water infused with butterfly-pea flowers. Lemongrass, makrut lime leaves and salt are added during cooking. The rice is plated with finely sliced vegetables and herbs, including long beans, cucumber and cabbage.[1]

The same preparation includes fish-and-coconut serunding, stuffed chillies, battered fried fish, salted eggs and fish crackers. A coconut-based sauce, cooked budu sauce and chilli sambal are served alongside. The components are mixed together while eating.[1]

References

Sources checked:

  1. Resepi Set Nasi Kerabu — Che Nom

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