Name: Yellow coconut rice
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: Indonesian
Ingredients: 4 cm (1½ inches) turmeric, peeled, or 1 rounded teaspoon ground turmeric; 5 garlic cloves, peeled; 5 small red Asian shallots, peeled; 2 cm (¾ inch) ginger, peeled; 1 heaped teaspoon salt; 5 lime leaves; 400 ml (14 fl oz) tin coconut milk; 6 cm (2½ inches) galangal, skin scrubbed; 3 lemongrass sticks, bruised and tied in a knot; 2 tablespoons oil; 500 g (2½ cups) jasmine rice

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fire Islands

By Eleanor Ford

Published 2019

About

Resembling a heap of gold, nasi kuning symbolises good fortune and so is served at festivals and celebrations, often in a towering cone shape called a tumpeng. These can be small individual portions or tower several feet high like a splendid volcano. The rice is par-cooked, then bathed in amber-stained coconut milk, which it absorbs greedily, leaving the grains swollen with gentle flavour. There are notes of musky turmeric and balmy lemongrass, but this is a versatile dish to