Nasi Kerabu

Craving for Nasi Kerabu and of all times my blue pea flower turned into mush so I had to "improvise".. Decided to make yellow Nasi Kerabu instead.. but stick to the traditional blue if you have the Bunga telang

For the rice :-

3 cups rice, washed

4 cups water

1 onion, sliced

2 garlic, sliced,

1 teaspoon tumeric powder (this is not required if you have the pea flower)

A few drops of yellow colouring (optional)

2 lime leaves

1 lemongrass, smashed

Mix all the above and cook in the rice cooker normally. If you have the blue pea flower or bunga telang, soak the flower to get the blue colouring or add a few drops of blue food colouring.

Kuah tumis

10 stalks of dried chilli, soaked

3 onions

1cm ginger

1 garlic

1 lemongrass

1-2 cup water

2 tamarind slice (Asam keping)

Gula Melaka (I used half a block)

2 teaspoon of sugar (adjust accordingly)

3 tablespoon budu (Ikan bilis sauce)

Salt to taste

200ml of Coconut cream (kara)

Blitz the above and sauté until fragrant. Add the lemongrass, tamarind, santan & water. Simmer until the tamarind is soft and add in the rest of the ingredients.

Sambal Kelapa or Coconut Sambal

1 Ikan kembong or tuna, boiled and flaked (just the meat)

1 cup shredded coconut (I blend half cup to make it really fine)

2 cili padi or birds eye chilli

1 lemongrass

1 onion

1/2 inch ginger

1 teaspoon ground black pepper

Blitz the above and Sautee with a bit of oil.. Once the spices is fragrant, add in shredded coconut and dry fry with the spices. Add in the flaked fish meat and continue cooking. Salt to taste.

Sambal Lada

10 stalks red chilli

5 birds eye chilli

Salt to taste

1 teaspoon sugar

1 tablespoon vinegar

Juice of 1 lime

Again blitz the chili and season accordingly.

Ulam

I used a mixture of veggies like long beans, winged beans (kacang Botol) cabbage, lemongrass, bunga kantan, taugey for the ulam. Just sliced thinly and toss together.

The main dishes are fried fish, fried chicken, salted fish, salted egg, keropok Ikan and solok lada .. But i didn't get to do the solok lada so another time perhaps ...