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Ingredients
- FOR THE BARBECUED CHICKEN
- 500g skinned boneless chicken thighs, each cut into 3 chunky strips
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 tsp crushed white peppercorns
- 1 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp Thai fish sauce
- Juice 1 lime
- FOR THE NASI GORENG SPICE PASTE
- 2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 4 fat garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 50g shallots, roughly chopped
- 25g roasted salted peanuts
- 6 medium-hot red chillies, seeded if you wish and roughly chopped
- 1 tsp blachan (shrimp paste)
- FOR THE NASI GORING
- 300g long grain rice
- Sunflower oil, for frying
- 6 large shallots, thinly sliced
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp tomato puree
- 1 tbsp ketchup manis (sweet dark soy sauce)
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 5cm piece cucumber, quartered lengthways and sliced
- 8 spring onions, trimmed and thinly sliced on the diagonal
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 18cm long bamboo skewers, soaked in cold water for 1 hour
Introduction
One of the UK’s most recognizable chefs, Rick Stein is famous for his restaurants in Padstow, Cornwall, (known as Padstein locally) and his expertise in seafood. He is a television regular, most recently appearing in Rick Stein’s India and Rick Stein’s German Bite.Method
Method for the barbecued chicken
- Cut each boned chicken thigh into three 2.5cm wide strips.
- Put into a bowl with the crushed garlic, crushed white peppercorns, sugar, fish sauce and lime juice and mix together well.
- Leave to marinate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- Thread the pieces onto parallel pairs of soaked bamboo skewers (this helps to stop the pieces spinning around as you turn them) and set aside in the fridge until needed.
- Preheat your barbecue or grill to high.
- Cook the chicken pieces for 6-7 minutes, turning until caramelised on the outside and cooked through. Slide the meat off the skewers, cut into chunky pieces and set aside.
Method for nasi goreng spice paste
- Simply put all the ingredients into a mini food processor with 1 teaspoon of salt and grind together into a smooth paste.
Method for nasi goreng
- Cook the rice in boiling salted water for 15 minutes or until just tender.
- Drain, rinse well with boiling hot water from the kettle, and drain well once more.
- Spread out on a large tray and leave to go cold (but do not refrigerate).
- Heat 1 cm of oil into a large deep frying pan, add the sliced shallots and shallow fry, stirring now and then, until crisp and richly golden.
- Remove with a slotted spoon onto plenty of kitchen paper, sprinkle lightly with salt and leave until cold and crisp.
- Beat the eggs with some salt and pepper.
- Heat a little sunflower oil in a small frying pan over a medium-high heat, pour in one-third of the beaten egg and cook until the egg has set on top.
- Flip it over, cook for a few more seconds then turn out, roll up tightly and leave to go cold.
- Repeat twice more with the remaining egg.
- Thinly slice across into thin strips.
- Heat a wok over a high heat until smoking hot.
- Add 2 tablespoons of the oil leftover from frying the shallots, then the nasi goring paste and stir-fry for 1-2 minutes.
- Add the tomato puree and ketchup manis and cook for a few seconds, then add the cold cooked rice and stir-fry over a high heat for 2 minutes until heated through.
- Add the barbecued chicken, crisp-fried shallots and strips of omelette and stir-fry for another minute.
- Add the light soy sauce, cucumber and most of the spring onions and toss together well.
- Spoon onto a large warmed plate, scatter over the remaining spring onions and serve.