How to Cook Delicious Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk)

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk). Nasi Goreng is the popular Indonesian fried rice which is traditionally served with a fried egg. The literal translation of Nasi Goreng is "fried rice" in Indonesian and Malaysian - and that's exactly what it is! As with almost every traditional dish, there are many versions of Nasi.

If you can't find it easily, feel free to substitute another Southeast Asian shrimp paste, or omit it—you'll be making what my mom calls nasi goreng cina, or Chinese. Shrimp paste or prawn sauce is a fermented condiment commonly used in Southeast Asian and Southern Chinese cuisines. See recipes for Ensaladang mangga (green manggo salad with shrimp paste) a Filipino recipe too. You can have Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk) using 8 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk)

1. Prepare 1 cup of rice (cooked).
2. It's 3 of shallots.
3. It's 1 cloves of garlic.
4. You need 1 tbsp of shrimp paste (cencaluk).
5. It's 1 1/2 tsp of fish sauce.
6. You need 1 of egg.
7. It's of Few anchovies.
8. It's of Quarter carrot.

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk). My Nasi Goreng (or Indonesian Fried Rice) is a spicy rice dish that's way more flavourful than regular fried rice. Topped with a fried egg (with crispy edges!) it's street food heaven. For the paste, we need shrimp paste, garlic, red chilli, fish sauce, brown sugar, tamarind, tomato puree and soy sauce.

Shrimp Paste Fried Rice (Nasi Goreng Cencaluk) instructions

1. Fry anchovies until crisped. Put aside.
2. Minced shallots and garlic. Saute shallots and garlic for a while. Once the aroma comes out, put the shrimp paste and fish sauce. Stir for a while..
3. Diced the carrot and put into the wok. Crack the egg and stir vigorously with high heat. Once the egg looks like to set, put the rice in. Mixed all until incorporated. If you like a bit of hot, you can put 1 or 2 small chilli while mixing the rice.
4. Taste the fried rice. Put in the fried anchovies. Put the heat away. Done.

For nasi goreng, leftover rice is stir-fried with a seasoning paste made from chiles, shrimp paste, and palm sugar, yielding a richly flavored dish that's ridiculously delicious. A fried egg on top makes it a satisfying meal. In every part of the world where rice is a staple food, one finds fried. Nasi Goreng can be served as a main dish, as a component of a Dutch/Indonesian 'rijstafel' or as a side dish. It is commonly eaten by Indonesians for breakfast, which you can do also if there is any left from the previous day (doubtful!).