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Nasi Hujan Panas – Colorful Ghee Rice
Nasi hujan panas is served at weddings and at Hari Raya in Malaysia. You cook basmati rice in ghee with cinnamon, cardamom and star anise, add condensed milk to the cooking water and drizzle red, yellow and green color over it near the end. The name means sun shower and refers to the colorful dots. You serve the rice with ayam masak merah, chicken in tomato chili sauce, and dalca, a lentil curry.
Nasi Hujan Panas – Colorful Ghee Rice
Laura Chen
4
25 minutes
35 minutes
480
Malaysian
Side dish
Nasi Hujan Panas is a spiced ghee rice cooked with milk, with red, yellow and green color drizzled over it shortly before it finishes. Hujan panas means sun shower. Nasi briyani gam cooks with lamb in one pot, while you make nasi hujan panas without meat as a side for ayam masak merah or dalca.
Ingredients
- 300 g basmati rice
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 cm ginger
- 3 tbsp ghee (clarified butter)
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 cardamom pods
- 3 cloves
- 2 star anise
- 1 pandan leaf (screwpine leaf), tied in a knot
- 400 ml water
- 100 ml unsweetened condensed milk (evaporated milk)
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp red, 1/4 tsp yellow and 1/4 tsp green food coloring, each stirred into 1 tbsp water
- 30 g raisins
- 30 g cashews
- 2 tbsp fried onions
Instructions
- Wash the rice until the water stays clear, soak it for 20 minutes and let it drain.
- Blend the onion, garlic and ginger with 2 tbsp of water into a paste.
- Heat 2 tbsp of ghee in a pot, fry the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and star anise for 1 minute and add the paste. Fry it for 4 minutes, until the water has evaporated and it smells fragrant.
- Toast the rice with it for 2 minutes, until the grains shine.
- Pour in the water and condensed milk, add the salt and pandan and bring to a boil. Cook the rice covered over the lowest heat for 12 minutes, until small holes appear on the surface.
- Drizzle the three colors over the rice in stripes with a teaspoon, without stirring. Close the lid and cook the rice for another 10 minutes, then let it rest off the heat for 5 minutes.
- Fry the cashews and raisins in the remaining ghee for 2 minutes, until the raisins puff up.
- Fluff the rice with a fork, plate it and sprinkle with the cashews, raisins and fried onions.
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