Nasi Liwet Solo

Name: Nasi Liwet Solo
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Javanese
Ingredients: 400 g Jasmine rice, washed; 400 ml Coconut milk; 300 ml Chicken broth; 2 stalks Lemongrass, bruised; 3 Salam leaves, or bay; 4 Garlic cloves, sliced; 5 Shallots, sliced; 1.5 tsp Salt; 400 g Chicken thighs, poached and shredded; 3 Eggs; 200 ml Thick coconut cream, for the areh; 250 g Young jackfruit, tinned, cut small; 1 tbsp Palm sugar; 2 sheets Banana leaves, for serving

Rice cooked in coconut milk and chicken broth with lemongrass and salam, served with shredded chicken, a savoury coconut custard and unripe jackfruit — Solo's breakfast, eaten off a banana leaf cone.

Sumber

Resep oleh Javanese home kitchens · 🏺 Tradisional · Javanese household cooking

Solo, Central Java · coconut rice — An ownerless regional dish, so no cook is credited. The cited article confirms nasi liwet as a Central Javanese rice dish from Solo cooked in coconut milk with chicken broth, salam leaves, lemongrass and spices. The areh method, quantities and the low-heat warning are this book's own.

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Langkah

Soften the shallots and garlic in a little oil in a heavy pot, 3 minutes, without colouring them.
Add the rice, coconut milk, broth, lemongrass, salam and salt. Bring to a boil, then cover and cook on the lowest heat for 18 minutes.
💡 Coconut milk catches and burns far more easily than water. Use your heaviest pot and the smallest flame you have.
Rest the rice, still covered and off the heat, for 10 minutes, then fluff with a fork.
For the areh: beat the eggs into the coconut cream with 1/2 tsp salt, pour into a shallow dish and steam 20 minutes until just set.
💡 Steam it gently. Boiled hard, the egg curdles and the custard weeps water instead of sitting soft on the rice.
Simmer the jackfruit with the palm sugar, a salam leaf and 150 ml water for 15 minutes until it takes on colour.
Cone a banana leaf or use a bowl: rice at the bottom, then chicken, jackfruit and a spoonful of the areh on top.

💡 Tips

Solo eats this at dawn and at midnight, sold by women carrying it in baskets. It is not a dinner dish there, whatever the hour you cook it.
The areh is what separates nasi liwet from ordinary coconut rice. Skip it and you have made nasi uduk by a different name.