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Nasi goreng

Name: Nasi goreng
Total time: 533 min
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: South East Asian
Ingredients: 200g jasmine rice; 150g chicken thighs; 2 eggs; 1½ tbsp oil; 2 tbsp kecap manis; 1 tsp shrimp paste (terasi — a small piece, toasted first); 4 shallots; 3 garlic cloves; 3 chillies; 1 cucumber; 1 tomato; 1 handful prawn crackers

Also known as nasi goreng ayam · indonesian fried rice · nasi gorang · nasgor

Rice fried dark with kecap manis, a fried egg on top, cucumber and krupuk beside. Sweet, smoky and deeply savoury.

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Typical serving

620 kcal

usually 480–790 kcal

Typical nutrition for one serving
Protein	22 g
Carbs	79 g
Fat	24 g

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Before you start

the rice cooked the day before, cooled fast and kept in the fridge
a wok or your widest pan, and everything chopped before it is lit

33mhands on

8h 20munattended

8h 53mstart to finish

Ingredients

Serves 2 · dimmer marks are storecupboard

200gjasmine rice
150gchicken thighs
2eggs
1½ tbspoil
2 tbspkecap manis
1 tspshrimp paste — terasi — a small piece, toasted first
4shallots
3garlic cloves
3chillies
1cucumber
1tomato
1 handfulprawn crackers

Method

7 steps

boil · 20m walk away
The day before: rice cooked, then spread thin on a tray to cool quickly and into the fridge within the hour. Warm cooked rice left standing on the side is how people get ill, and frying it the next day does not undo it.
rest · 8 hours walk away
Overnight in the fridge, covered. The grains firm up and stop clinging to each other.
fold · 12m
Shallots, garlic, chillies and the toasted shrimp paste pounded to a rough paste in a mortar with a pinch of salt. Chicken diced, cucumber and tomato sliced, everything set out beside the hob.
fry · 5m
Paste into the hot oil and fried until it darkens and stops smelling raw — a good three or four minutes, and it is the step everyone cuts short.
fry · 9m
Chicken in and cooked right through with no pink, then the cold rice broken in with the back of the spatula and tossed until every grain is hot and coated. Kecap manis round the edge of the pan at the end.
fry · 4m
Eggs fried separately in hot oil until the edges are brown and frilled and the yolk still soft.
finish · 3m
Rice onto plates with an egg on each, cucumber and tomato at the side, crackers on top.

Worth knowing

Indonesia’s national dish by acclamation — the dark sweetness is kecap manis, a soy sauce thickened with palm sugar.

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