Nasi Uduk

Nasi uduk is made from rice (especially jasmine rice) cooked in coconut milk and multitude of spices resulting in a super fragrant and flavorful rice. A lot of folks love having nasi uduk for breakfast with a simple side dish of telur dadar gulung (rolled fried egg). But it is more common as a lunch or dinner item, where ayam ungkep (Javanese fried rice), fried tempeh, fried tofu, and sambal terasi (shrimp paste chili sauce) will appear alongside the egg.

Ingredients

• 2 cup rice (use the cup that comes with the rice cooker)
• ½ cup thick coconut milk (regular US cup)
• 2½ cup water (regular US cup)
• 2 lemongrass (Indonesian: sereh), bruised and knotted
• 2 pandan leaves, washed and knotted
• 4 bay leaves (Indonesian: daun salam)
• 2 thin slices of ginger (Indonesian: jahe)
• 2 thin slices of galangal (Indonesian: lengkuas)
• 1 teaspoon coriander powder (Indonesian: bubuk ketumbar)
• ⅛ teaspoon salt

Instructions

1. Place all ingredients in a rice cooker pot and cook until ready.
2. Let rest for 10 minutes before opening the lid.
3. Remove the lemongrass, pandan, bay leaves, ginger, and galangal. Stir with the rice cooker paddle.
4. It is traditional to shape the rice with a cone mold (I just use a banana leaf and make it into a cone), but you can also just use a rice bowl to shape.
5. Serve with ayam ungkep (Javanese fried rice), tempeh goreng lengkuas (fried tempeh in galangal sauce), and telur dadar gulung (rolled fried egg).