Nasi kerabu
Malaysia · Southeast Asia
- Short description
- This blue rice plate is built for contrast: fragrant herbs, salty fish, crisp crackers, rich egg, and chile heat.
- Ingredients
- Rice tinted with butterfly pea flowers, fresh herbs, toasted coconut, dried fish, fried fish or chicken, salted egg, crackers, chile paste, fermented fish sauce, and vegetables.
- Cultural note
- It is associated with market breakfasts and packed rice plates where each side is arranged around a colorful mound of rice.
- Common misconception
- The blue color is not artificial dye; it traditionally comes from butterfly pea flowers.
image credit
- creator:
- amrufm from Shah Alam, Malaysia
- source:
- Wikimedia Commons
- license:
- CC BY 2.0
- modified:
- Copied from Wikimedia Commons and center-cropped/resized/re-encoded for Gochizu; no other edits.
audio credit
- voice:
- marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
- source:
- OpenAI API Text to Speech
- license:
- OpenAI API generated audio
- modified:
- AI-generated voice audio.