Nasi Goreng Recipe

How do you make Nasi Goreng, the world’s most famous Indonesian dish, and one that is eaten by tens of thousands of tourists every week in Bali? Nasi Goreng is Balinese fried rice and you can serve it with other dishes such as satay meat or jazz it up with sweet chilli or tomato sauce.

The recipe is very easy to learn and you can modify it to your own tastes.

Nasi Goreng recipe

Ingredients:

• about 2 cups of rice
• 1 tbs oil
• 2 chicken breasts or meat of your choice, cut into 2cm pieces
• 3 or 4 bacon rashers, finely cut
• 5 spring onions, finely cut
• 2 crushed and finely diced cloves of garlic
• 1 carrot, diced
• 1 stick of celery (not a bunch), finely diced
• small handful of cooked, peeled prawns
• 1 cup shredded Chinese cabbage
• 2 cups bean sprouts
• 4 eggs
• 1 tbs soy sauce
• 2 tbs fried shallots
• 2 tbs kecap manis

Method:
1. Cook rice as normal then spread in 2 baking trays and leave to cool for two hours.
2. Heat half the oil in a wok and stir fry the chicken, then the bacon. Both should be well browned. Set aside.
3. Add remaining oil and stir fry the garlic, spring onions, carrots, celery and prawns.
4. Add the cooked bacon and chicken with the cabbage and stiry fry all together then add the rice, bean sprouts, most of the shallots, the kecap manis and the soy sauce. Heat and stir through then place in a big bowl.
5. Fry the eggs.
6. Serve the nasi goreng in bowls and top each serving with a fried egg and a sprinkling of the shallots.

Serves 4