Nothing Beats a Simple Nasi Lemak

Home made Nasi Lemak
cook the rice with coconut milk and pandan leaves
looks like fried worms, it is the fried ikan bilis with peanuts (anchioves)
Today's menu is Nasi Lemak. A malay-Singaporean dish that is so simple, yet so yummy. It is probably not very worth the time, effort and money to cook up a Nasi Lemak, unless you cook for a few dozens. Because you can buy it for just $$1:50 from the coffee shops/ hawker centres/ even mama shops. But those are usually cold by the time we bought them home.

So I cook a piping hot dish of Nasi Lemak. It is easy, but it requires alot of a-ga-ra-tion (singlish for esitmation), especially for the rice. You need to have the right amount of coconut and pandan flavours. The chilli is the most important part of the dish. Singaporeans swear by the chilli. If the chilli is not appropriate, the dish would not be complete. I would have made my own chilli but I was missing an ingredient, belachan. This dish goes best with belachan chilli.