RICE

Cooking Rice
Step by step how to cook steamed rice my way is easy, based on Javanese cooking style.
Use any heavy-based pot to prevent the rice from sticking and also to stop rice burning on the bottom of the pot.


Steamed White Rice  (Nasi Putih)
I don't have a steamer; instead, I do it in a pot with a heavy base.

Recipe:
1 cup heap full of long-grain white rice (Jasmine)
2 cups of water
Place the rice and water in a heavy based pot
Cook over medium heat, uncovered
Bring the rice to boil, stir and cook until the liquid is absorbed

Stir around, and gather the rice in the middle of the pot, put them back as before, let it be evenly spread on in and put the lid on, continue cooking on the same heat for 2 minutes, reduce the temperature at a shallow setting, and continue cooking for 8 minutes.

Open the lid, stir the rice lightly.  Replace the lid on.  Fluff the rice properly before serving.  Keep the lid on ( cover ) to keep it moist.

It is easy enough to do, and the rice is cooked well and fluffy.  The right and accurate temperature are essential to avoid sticking and burning.
Now, if you won't bother to cook the rice this way there is a rice cooker that you can purchase,  you cannot go wrong, simply follow the instruction, how to use it. Put it on, and in no time you have cooked rice.

The Javanese Style
Cooking boiled rice is never added salt, garnished with the side dishes to serve.  The rice is the vehicle to taste the flavours of the garnishes.

There are specific cooking of rice and added with salt. They are Nasi Gurih, Nasi Kuning, and Nasi Goreng.  Please look at the older posts.


Serving Rice
Often to be presented as a rice cone with the vegetable - Nasi Tumpeng & Sayur

Rice Cone with Snake Beans dressed in Coconut

The Side Dishes.
Pictures from the older posts.

double-cooked chicken, sauteed beans, spicy eggplant




gudangan, gudeg with chicken and eggs, sambal goreng bean and prawns.



empal, vegetable trancam, and sambal goreng kobis

gulai kambing-goat curry, acar, tahu bacem


terik telor,  telur gulung with prawns and telur pedas


panggang Ayam, opor Ayam and Ayam pedas-hot and spicy chicken

sayur lodeh-braised vegetables in coconut milk,  tahu salad and keringan-crispy spiced fried tempeh

Family Meal

Nasi Rames.  Steamed white rice with garnishes, semur telor, sambal goreng telur, acar, bergedel etc.

Javanese Dishes for Family Gets Together

Javanese Banquette.  White Rice and garnishes.  You could have five or ten garnishes or even more.

A Banquet for Milo

Today is the first day of Autumn, here in Traralgon Victoria is very hot, as it is summertime.

It was wise to be outside in the morning. We enjoyed the rest of the day inside the house, relaxed and comfortable.

Enjoy the new season, maybe you like to try to cook rice my way and serve it with Opor Ayam-chicken dish in which posted only recently under the heading of Cooking Lesson.  You will have a delicious meal, and the Autumn weather is perfect for it.

Welcome Autumn, and Have a Good Season Everyone.

Susy