Healthy Nasi Lemak recipe

Most Malaysians crave for that occasional coconut milk rice for breakfast. But this dish is great for lunch and dinner as well. How to make it healthier? It's none other than substituting the coconut milk with fresh milk and use low GI rice such as Basmathi rice.

Nasi Lemak (Coconut Milk Rice) ingredients

A: 
0.5 tablespoons coconut oil
1shallot,
sliced 0.5 inch ginger,
sliced1 clove garlic
125g Basmathi rice, washed and drained

B: 
200 mlwater
100 mlNestle full cream milk
2pandan leaves

Sambal Ikan Bilis (Chilli Anchovies)

1.5 cups dried anchovies (We used bilis bulu ayam as it's more crunchy-- fry it over medium and high heat just when they started to turn golden)
0.5 cup oil
2 cloves of garlic mashed
6 shallots mashed
15 dried chillies or 75ml chilli paste
1.5 tsp belacan (prawn paste)
0.5 tspsalt
1.5 tbspsugar
2 red onions mashed
2 tamarind pulp soaked in1.5cups water

Other Ingredients

3 eggs hard boiled, cut into halves
1cucumber cut into slices
1 cups peanuts

Serves 4 (conventionally 250g rice is used but our family doesn't eat much rice)

In a pan, stir fry ingredients A until fragrant.

Add in rice and stir for a while. Turn fire off.

Transfer the rice into a rice cooker and pour in ingredients B.

Let the rice cook in the rice cooker.

Done!

Serve with sambal and condiments. We also had stir fry sweet potato leafs and sambal squid for lunch.

Since today is Easter Sunday with MCO still in place due to Covid 19, we had a mini Easter egg hunt at home using the hard boiled eggs after breakfast. The children were extremely egg-cited to be able to decorate the eggs with food grade magic colour pens.

1 of the spots I hid the egg.

Tips: If no coconut milk is added to the rice, the rice is safe to be kept refrigerated overnight.

How to make Sambal Anchovies and side dishes for the nasi lemak? I followed the recipe from HuangKitchen.com.

Enjoy!