Nasi Ulam
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If you have leftover rice, don't throw it away. Use it to make Nasi Ulam. The Malays take plenty of ulam in their diet. Translated it means salad.
This dish is a mixture of a variety of herbs (ulam) and spices with rice. The kunyit and pepper relives stomach gas.
Ingredients:
Rice about 400gm (to feed 5 persons)
One thumb size salted fish pre toasted in the oven or deep fried till crispy.
Then pound the salted fish till fine.
You can substitute (cheat) salted fish with a fistful of anchovies. Deep fry and then pound finely.
One tbsp of pepper or according to taste
Kerisik (coconut shavings fried till brown/fragrant on low fire)
a) Turmeric or kunyit (one thumb size)
b) Ginger flower leaves (2 pieces)/Daun Kunyit
c) One Ginger flower / Bunga kantan
d) Daun kaduk (about 15 large leaves) sold at market one bunch RM 1. Or you can harvest at shady parks or swampy areas or drains.
e) One Onion (large pink ones )
f) Kaffir lime leaves (8 pieces)
g) Long beans (6 strands)
You can add other types of leaves as well.
All the above (a-g) thinly sliced
Then mix them through the rice. Salt might not be necessary as the salted fish is salty enough. This was one of the dish which I sold at my stall.
Then dig in.
