Yellow Rice Everyone :)

There was a pot luck held in our church last Sunday and I wanted to participate and introduce the beauty of Indonesian food to our friends. Because it was an international church, the idea was to get everybody bring their native breakfast or lunch menu – which left me dumbfounded: Indonesian eats big meal at breakfast, lunch and dinner! If I bring one dish then I must bring the rice… so I decided to cook yellow rice and shredded chicken to bring to the church. It’s the simplest version of real yellow rice I can make (it should be more complete with many other dishes, but it was lovely, and my husband was very very happy because he got a traditional yellow rice as his breakfast :D

Ingredients:

5 cups of white rice (I used the cup comes with the rice cooker, it’s about 180 ml)

4 cups of coconut milk plus 1 cup of water (I used the same cup)

5 cloves of garlic

1 big onion

1 teaspoon of blue ginger powder

1 teaspoon of lemon grass powder

4 or 5 teaspoons of turmeric powder (I’m not a spice-powder type of girl but our previous housemate left a lot of spices powder behind, and the best way to get rid of them is to cook with them :D)

2 Indonesian bay leaves (daun salam)

3 kafir lime leaves

Sprinkle of salt

How to:

Grind garlic, onion, plus the spices powder to make paste.

Cook the coconut milk, water and the spice paste, put in the bay leaves and kafir limes, until it boils.

Put in the rice, cook and stir until the liquid is all absorbed by the rice.

Steam the rice for about 40 minutes until it’s cooked. (I got very nervous and keep peeping to the pan looking if my rice was ready, since it’s my second time to cook yellow rice this way – and the first time was about many years ago and it was a disaster, and especially this time I cooked it for others, so it must be successful! Plus my pan was too small, so you know how difficult it was :D)

Serve the rice with the shredded chicken, fried onion, prawn crackers, scrambled egg – anything you want to add, just add it :D

This would make a bit too much rice for two person (I cooked it for many anyway), you can reduce it as you want. I want to make it again smaller portion using our little rice cooker. I’ll let you know if it works out :D